Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 145 · Decided 15 March 2002
Chowdarapu Raghunandan v. State of Tamil Nadu and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 145 · [2002] 2 S.C.R. 486
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 218/2001
- Decided
- 15 March 2002
- Bench
- M.B. SHAH, DORAISWAMY RAJU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution; Customs Act
Headnote
Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling }-- Activities Act, I974-Section 3(J)(i)-Detention-Dutiable goods recovered t.. c from detenu-Ownership of baggages, containing the goods doubtful- ~ Investigation inconclusive-No other a/legation-Denial of bail in criminal proceedings detention order-Held, detention can be ordered even for single incident if from the nature of the incident it can be inferred that person is likely to repeat such acts so as to warrant his detention-In the D instant case, inference of detenu 's involvement in smuggling activities could not be
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