Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 274 · Decided 15 April 2014
Licil Antony v. State of KERALA&ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 274 · [2014] 14 S.C.R. 317
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 872/2014
- Decided
- 15 April 2014
- Bench
- C.K. PRASAD, PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
A B Preventive Detention - Smuggling of red sanders in India and abroad -Detention order passed under c COFEPOSA - Challenged on ground that there was inordinate delay in passing the order which itself vitiated the same - Held: There has to be live link between the prejudicial activity and the of delay, that has to be satisfactorily explained - Delay in issuing the order of o detention, if not satisfactorily explained, itself is a ground to · quash the order of detention - On facts, it cannot be said that there was undue delay in passing the order of detention and that live
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