Supreme Court · 1981 INSC 201 · Decided 9 December 1981
Harnek Singh v. State of Punjab & Ors
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1981 INSC 201 · [1982] 2 S.C.R. 139
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 7444/1981
- Decided
- 9 December 1981
- Bench
- A.D. KOSHAL, A.P. SEN, V. BALAKRISHNA ERADI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 307, 411, 414; Constitution Article 32
Headnote
i39 Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act 1974, S. 3(1)-Detention Order-Offences committed by detenu in February 1980- Prosecutlon initiated under Penal Code-Detenu on bail and appearing before Magistrate from February 1980 to July 1981-Detenu taken into illegal and invalid. The brother of the petitioner had been detained under sub-section (l) of Section 3 of the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act 1974. In the writ petition to this Court under Article 32 it was contended that a case covering offences under
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