Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 270 · Decided 31 October 1972
Manu Bhusan Roy Pradhan v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 270 · [1973] 2 S.C.R. 842
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 252/1972
- Decided
- 31 October 1972
- Bench
- J.M. SHELAT, I.D. DUA, Y.V. CHANDRACHUD (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Mainte11ance oi Internal Security Act, 1971-S. 3(2)~P·1blic Order­ What it amoUnts 10 • . The petitioner was arrested and detained under s.9 read with section 3(2) of the Maintenance of Internal Security Act of 1971 on the grounds:-(!) that on 16-4-71 at about 8 p.m. the assault on one Shri Bulo Das Gupta, who later died in hospital. As a result of this crime, people of the locality became highly terrorised and the public peac.e was greatly disturbed: and (2) on 19·7·71 at 7.30 p.n\. the petitioner, along with others forcibly entered a school
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