Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 650 · Decided 27 September 2010
SMT. Pebam Ningol Miko Devi v. State of Manipur and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 650 · [2010] 12 S.C.R. 429
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1849/2010
- Decided
- 27 September 2010
- Bench
- D.K. JAIN, H.L. DATTU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 161; Constitution Article 22(5), 21, 22
Headnote
A B National Security Act, 1980 - s. 3(2) - Preventive detention - Legality - Editor of a Daily evening paper detained under the National Security Act - Detention order - C Challenge to - Held: There was no reasonable basis for the detention order, and there was no material to support the same - on by the detaining Authority in passing the detention order could be deemed to be pertinent - Delay in forwarding the representation of the D detenu to Central Government also remained unexplained - Sufficient ground made out for quashing the order of preventive detention - Constitution of India,
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