Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 866 · Decided 13 November 2024
In Re: Directions in the Matter of Demolition of Structures v.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 866 · [2024] 11 S.C.R. 722
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 295/2022
- Decided
- 13 November 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, K.V. VISWANATHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 21
Headnote
Whether the executive should be permitted to take away the shelter of a family or families as a measure for infliction of penalty on a person who is accused in a crime. In other words, whether properties of persons, who are accused of committing certain crimes or for for commission of criminal offences, can be demolished without following the due process of law. Demolition of property - Demolition of property of a person by the State machinery merely because he is an accused or a convict, that too without following due process
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