Supreme Court · 1967 INSC 99 · Decided 10 April 1967
Satwant Singh Sawhney v. D. Ramarathnam, Assistant Passport Officer Government of India, New Delhi and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1967 INSC 99 · [1967] 3 S.C.R. 525
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 230/1966
- Decided
- 10 April 1967
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, M. HIDAYATULLAH, R.S. BACHAWAT, J.M. SHELAT, C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM (5-judge bench)
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 21, 32, 19
Headnote
Constitution of India, Articles 14 and 21-Whether right to travel abroad and to a passport part of personal liberty within the meanln1 of A.rt, 21-ln the absence of any law whether exercise of executive d/scre. tion ·to passport discriminatory. The petitioner carried on the business of import, expart and the manu· facture of automobile parts and in connection with his business it was necessary for him to travel abroad. For this pur} ;e he was holdin11 two valid passports when on August 31, 1966 and on
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