Supreme Court · 1969 INSC 343 · Decided 18 December 1969
Sudhir Kumar Saha v. Commissioner of Police, Calcutta & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1969 INSC 343 · [1970] 3 S.C.R. 360
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 378/1969
- Decided
- 18 December 1969
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, K.S. HEGDE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Preventive Detention Act (4 of 1950), s. 3(2)-Acts prejudicial to maintenance of public order-What are. The petitioner along with others, committed various offences on three occasions. On the first occasion be attacked the people of a locality with a knife and by hurling 'bottles at them. On the bombs at them. He C was detained under s. 3(2) of the Preventive Detention Act, ~50, with a view to preventing him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order. In a petition under Art. 32 for the issue of a writ of, habeas corpus, HELD : The incidents were not
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