Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 963 · Decided 22 August 2008
K.K. Saravana Babu v. State of Tamil Nadu & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 963 · [2008] 12 S.C.R. 468
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1332/2008
- Decided
- 22 August 2008
- Bench
- DALVEER BHANDARI, H.S. BEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
Preventive Detention - Detention of detenu relying on two criminal cases against him relating to land grabbing - c Propriety of - Held: Detention order is arbitrary, illegal and unsustainable - Even if criminal cases relied on by detaining authority are assumed to be correct, no case of made out - Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest 0 Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders, Sand Offenders, Slum Grabbers and Video Pirates Act, 1982 - .3(1). E Words and Phrases - 'Public order' - Meaning of in ....... the context of
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