Supreme Court · 1980 INSC 206 · Decided 4 November 1980
Kishor Singh Ravinder Dev ETC. v. State of Rajasthan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1980 INSC 206 · [1981] 1 S.C.R. 995
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 5287/1980
- Decided
- 4 November 1980
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, R.S. PATHAK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Prisons A ct, 1894-Section 46-Keeping of Prisoners in solitary confine­ ment and putting bar fetters for loitering and insolent behaviour-Validity of Natural Justice-Prison authorities, if should give an opportunity of being heard before imposing punishment 011 prisoners. One of the solitary confinement. He also complained that he was kept in iron fetters alongwith the other two \)etitioners. By an order of this Court, the petitioners were directed to be set free from solitary confinement and brought before the Court. When the prisoners were brought before the Court they
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