Supreme Court · 1990 INSC 79 · Decided 7 March 1990
MRS. T. Devaki v. Government of Tamil Nadu and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1990 INSC 79 · [1990] 1 S.C.R. 836
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 468/1989
- Decided
- 7 March 1990
- Bench
- K.N. SINGH, M.H. KANIA, KULDIP SINGH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, Immoral Traffic Offenders and Slum Grabbers, Act, 1982. c Detention Order-Whether detaining authority required to specify period of detention-Solitary incidelll of murderous assault-'Law and order' or a law and order problem and nothing more. Detention Order-Subjective satisfaction-Detaining authority >--. D himself present at the place of occurrence-Should have relied more on own knowledge and observations than report of sponsoring authority- Non-application of mind in making the order
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