Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 343 · Decided 18 December 1968
In the Matter of Madhu Limaye & ORS. v. No Respondent
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 343 · [1969] 3 S.C.R. 154
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 355/1968
- Decided
- 18 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
- IPC Section 188, 143; CrPC Section 144, 151; Constitution Article 22(1), 32
Headnote
Comtfrution of India, Art. 22(1)-Necessity of infornzing person cu:rested grounds for his arrest-Arrest illegal if Article not complied with-Order of renu;nd by 1nagistrate cannot cure constitutional infirniity. . The petitioners were arrested on Novrmber 6, 1968 at a rail\\•ay sta­ uon in defiance of a prohibitory order under s. 144 Cr. P.C. and bad been arrested under s. 151 Cr. P.C. It was stated that report was being submitted "under sections J 07 and 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code and under s. 188 of the Indian Penal Code.'' On November 6 itself the first
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