Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 281 · Decided 14 November 1972
MOHD. Subrati Alias MOHD. Karim v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 281 · [1973] 2 S.C.R. 990
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 307/1972
- Decided
- 14 November 1972
- Bench
- C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM, I.D. DUA, A. ALAGIRISWAMI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 379; CrPC Section 161; Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Maintenance oj"/11te1nal Security Act (26 of 1971), s. 3 (I) and (2) -Scope of. Duty of Srate to place before Court all mal/ers relev11111 to the deten­ . tion and of officers swearing to affidarifs to be careful. The petitioner committed thefts of electric copper wire and when challenged them. The thefts totally disrupted' the electric supply for. several hours in the areas concerned. The petitioner was detained by· an order of preventive detention under s. 3(1) and (2) of the Mainten­ ance of Internal Security Act, 1971. In a petition under Art. 32 he contended that
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