Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 88 · Decided 19 April 1979
Hussainara Khantoon & ORS. v. Home Secretary, State of Bihar, Patna
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 88 · [1979] 3 S.C.R. 760
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 57/1979
- Decided
- 19 April 1979
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, O. CHINNAPPA REDDY, A.P. SEN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Hearing Adjourned
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 167, 167(2); Constitution
Headnote
Le~al Aid to Poor-Ad111i11istration of Criminal l11.stice-Co11.\tilurional obli­ gation of Srate Gorel'nflu'nt-Frce lrgal sen-ices-A b.\l'llce of-I -i1it1rio1t of trial -Att. 21 Constitution of lndfa. Crilninal Procedure (,'ode, 1973-S. 167(2)(a)-Riu/11 uf u11d1·r-triul p1iso1I­ expense. ..... On further hearing the petition for r'elease of under-tri::ils in the State of~ Bihar. i HEID : 1. The State Governments do not seem to be alive t.i their consti­ tutional responsibility in the matter of provision of free legal services in the field of administration of
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