Supreme Court · 1974 INSC 171 · Decided 9 September 1974
D. Bhuvan Mohan Patnaik & ORS. v. State of Andhra Pradesh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1974 INSC 171 · [1975] 2 S.C.R. 24
- Case number
- WRIT TO PETITION (CRIMINAL)... No. 295/1974
- Decided
- 9 September 1974
- Bench
- HANS RAJ KHANNA, Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, P.K. GOSWAMI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Constitution Article 21, 13(3)(Ii), 32
Headnote
Constit111ion of India, Articles 32. 21 and 13-Prison,g Act, 1894-Whether pri~oner has /1111damenta/ right-Validity of live wiJ•e mechanism atop jail wall-­ Posting Police out·side i•~il-Validily of. The petitioners are UIJ.der·going sentences in the Central Jail at reliefs that the armed Police Guards posted around the Jail should be ren~oved and that live wire elec­ trical mechanism fixed on top of jail wall should be dismantled. It was contended by the petitioners that ( 1) under section 3(1) of the Pri~ons Act, 1894 prison includes all lands and
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