Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 1180 · Decided 11 October 1996
Commissioner of Police, Delhi and ANR. v. Registrar, Delhi High Court, New Delhi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 1180 · [1996] SUPP. 7 S.C.R. 432
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 12991/1996
- Decided
- 11 October 1996
- Bench
- M.M. PUNCHHI, K.T. THOMAS (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 142, 21
Headnote
VIP Security-Special Protection Group Act, 198~Section 2(a), 2(g), 14-Proximate Securi~eaning-Purposive approach-Visits of protectee to C court as an accused-SPG cover cannot be lifted from the protectee. Constitution of lndia, Art. 136-Jurisdiction--Plenary in na­ tu~Supreme Court can Primer Minister of India, whose D security was covered under the Special Protection Group Act, 1988, stood summoned as an accused-~lminal case before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Tis H_llZal'fCourts, Delhi. Shri Rao, obliged to appear before the criminal ~rt, had to be taken there as a
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