Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 163 · Decided 2 August 1972
Madan Mohan Mondal v. The State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 163 · [1973] 1 S.C.R. 761
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 215/1972
- Decided
- 2 August 1972
- Bench
- I.D. DUA, HANS RAJ KHANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 22(5), 32
Headnote
761 Preventive Detention-Maintenance of Internal Security Act, (26 of 1971), ss. 3(1) & (2) and Constitution of India, 1950, Art. 22(5)-Delay in considering detenu's representation-Efiect of. The petitioner was arrested pursuant to an order of detention under ss. 3(1) (a)( iii) and 3(2) of the was rejected 33 days after its receipt. In a petition under Art. 32 challenging his detention, the State Government explained the delay by stating that the go-slow movement launched by the State Government employees and the increase in the V!)lume of work relatina to detentions caused
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