Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 702 · Decided 10 December 2003
Hare Ram Pandey v. State of Bihar and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 702 · [2003] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 627
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 655/1997
- Decided
- 10 December 2003
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 22, 226
Headnote
B Constitution of India, 1950: Article 22. Prevention detention-Scope and ambit of-Held: ls an anticipatory measure and does not relate to an ?ffence-It is a preventive and precautionary measure so that the person detained did not act in a manner C prejudicial to the society-Preventive detention by an order passed under Section 12 of the Bihar Control of Crimes Act, 1981. The D appellant filed a writ petition before the High Court contending that the order of detention was without authority in law and, therefore, deserved to be nullified. The High Court dismissed the writ
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