Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 342 · Decided 17 December 1968
In Re : Sushanta Goswami and Others v. No Respondent
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 342 · [1969] 3 S.C.R. 138
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 328/1968
- Decided
- 17 December 1968
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, V. RAMASWAMI, A.N. GROVER (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 22(5), 32
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950, Art. 22(5)-Preventive Detention Act 4 of 1950 s. 3(2)-Grounds of detention-Detention cannot be upheld if anv of the grounds is irrelevant-'Maintenance of public order' when affected. The petitioners were detained under the Preventive Detention Act. 1950. They filed a individually in the light of the grounds of detention supplied to them. HELD : ( i) If some of the grounds whid,h are given are irrelevant the order of detention cannot be upheld because the court cannot predicate what the subjective satisfaction of the authority would have been on the
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