Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 754 · Decided 16 August 2017
Rakesh Kumar Paul v. State of Assam
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 754 · [2017] 8 S.C.R. 785
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE TO PETITION (CRIMINAL)... No. 2009/2017
- Decided
- 16 August 2017
- Bench
- MADAN B. LOKUR, PRAFULLA C. PANT, DEEPAK GUPTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC; Constitution Article 21; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 13(1), 7
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: , Cl.(i) of proviso (a) to s.167(2) - Interpretation of words C "imprisonment for a term not less than ten years" - Petitioner arrested for an offence, inter alia, uls. 13(1) of the PC Act, 1988 - Offence uls. 13(1) of the PC Act punishable with less than four years but may extend to ten years - After ,expiry of 60 days of detention, bail application filed by the D petitioner before High Court which was rejected on ground that he could be detained for 90 days - State contended that the petitioner could be kept in custody for a period of
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