Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 43 · Decided 3 February 1972
Ram Krishna Paul v. Tiie GOVT. of West Bengal & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 43 · [1972] 3 S.C.R. 401
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 307/1971
- Decided
- 3 February 1972
- Bench
- J.M. SHELAT, HANS RAJ KHANNA, KUTTYIL KURIEN MATHEW (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 383; Constitution
Headnote
West Bengal (Prevention of Violent Activities) A.ct, 1970, s. 3- Grounds of detention--One of the grounds extraneous in character. Order of detention would be vitiated. The petitioner was deiained under section 6 of the West Bengal Pre- e vention of Violent Activitiea Act, 1970. One of the grounds ( 1) of section 8 was. that .he alongwith his associates werit to a pharmacy po&ng himself as a purchaser of medicine '311d demanded money from the oWDllt" of the pharmacy in the name of collection. towards party fund and out of fear the owner delivered Rs. 10/· to him.
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