Supreme Court · 1975 INSC 11 · Decided 22 January 1975
Ram Ranjan Chatterjee v. The State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1975 INSC 11 · [1975] 3 S.C.R. 301
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 476/1974
- Decided
- 22 January 1975
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, P.K. GOSWAMI, R.S. SARKARIA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Mai11te111111ce of Internal Security Act, 1971-Pre1•e11til'e Dcte111io11-Disti11c­ tio11 between Public order and Law cmd Order. The petitioner challenged the order of his detentiO'n made 11nder section 3 of the Maintenance of Internal Security Act. The Ofder was founded on 3 grounds. person died in a thickly populated area which created panic amongst the local people and he threatened the local people to see that they did not inform the Police. Secondly. the petitioner and his associates tried to extort on pain of instant death groeery from a shop keeper. As a result
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