Supreme Court · 1980 INSC 201 · Decided 24 October 1980
SMT. Shalini Soni ETC. v. Union of India & ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1980 INSC 201 · [1981] 1 S.C.R. 962
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 4344/1980
- Decided
- 24 October 1980
- Bench
- R.S. SARKARIA, O. CHINNAPPA REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 22(5), 32
Headnote
Representatfon to the Advisory Board under section 3 of Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Preve111io11 of Smuggling Activities Ac1, 1974, nature of­ Constitution of India, 1950, Article 22(5), scope of, explained--Words and phrase~ '"Grounds" under Article 22(5) meaning of. under the COFEPOSA has not to be made in any prescribed form. There is no formula nor any magical incantation like "open seasame" to 1fe repeated or chanted in order to qualify a communication as a representation. So long as it contains a demand or a request for the release of the detenu
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)