Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 284 · Decided 14 October 1971
Mishrilal Jain v. District Magistrate, Kamrup & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 284 · [1972] 1 S.C.R. 1101
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 375/1971
- Decided
- 14 October 1971
- Bench
- C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM, P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY, KUTTYIL KURIEN MATHEW (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
110 l Maintenance of Internal Security Act, 1971, s. 3(2)(a)-At least one of the grounds of detention vague-Effect on detention order. The petitioner was a dealer in salt in the State of Assam. On account of unprecedented floods there was an acute scarcity of salt in the State. Although there was its distribution and sale, the Deouty Coffimissioner, in coflsultatio'l with the representatives of the local Chamber of Commerce, fixed the ceiling price of salt. The District Magistrate passed an order for detaining the oetitioner under s. 3(2)(a) of the Maintenance of Internal Security Act,
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