Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 701 · Decided 19 June 2007
State of Maharashtra & ORS. v. Mehamud
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 701 · [2007] 7 S.C.R. 1043
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 133/2001
- Decided
- 19 June 2007
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, P.P. NAOLEKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Arms Act
Headnote
B Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Slumlords, Bootleggers and Drug Offenders Act, I 98 I: ss. 2(/-b) and 3- 'Dangerous person '-Order of detention-Expression c "habitually commits or attempts to commit"-Connotation of-Held: Detenu being involved in fourteen cases and Chapter V of Arms Act, and considering the nature of jurisdiction which the detaining authority exercises, the conclusion of High Court that there must D be a conviction in order to say that detenu habitually commits offences is clearly unsustainable-Jn this regard the reasonable belief of
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