Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 342 · Decided 17 August 2012
Ranjan Dwivedi v. C.B.I., Through the Director General
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 342 · [2012] 7 S.C.R. 329
- Case number
- WRIT TO PETITION (CIVIL)... No. 200/2011
- Decided
- 17 August 2012
- Bench
- H.L. DATTU, C.K. PRASAD (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 258, 309, 311; Constitution Article 21, 32, 141an
Headnote
CONSTITUTION OF IND/A, 1950: A B Art. 21 - Speedy trial - Samastipur bomb-blast - 37 years c delay in trial - Held: The Constitution does not expressly declare the right to speedy trial as a fundamental right - However, 'reasonably' expeditious trial has been held an integral and essential right to life and liberty enshrined in Art. 21 - Delay, which occasioned by 0 action or inaction of the prosecution is one of the main factors which will be taken note by the courts while interjecting a criminal trial - However, unintentional and unavoidable delays or administrative
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