Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 173 · Decided 16 August 1972
Suna Ullah Butt v. State of Jammu & Kashmir & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 173 · [1973] 1 S.C.R. 870
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 195/1972
- Decided
- 16 August 1972
- Bench
- J.M. SHELAT, I.D. DUA, HANS RAJ KHANNA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32; Arms Act
Headnote
Jammu and Kashmir Preventive Detention Act 1964, s, 12---0rder of State Govt. confirming detenti{)n whether must sp~cify period of detention -Lack of such ~pecificarion whether vWares detention. The petitioner was detained under ss. 3t2) and 5 of the Jammu & K::~hmir Preventive Detention Act supplied to the peti· tioner he was in the service. of Pakistan Intelligence and had also recruited other persons to supply military information to Pakistan Intelligence. After the Advisory Board had given its opinion holding that the detention was justilled, the State O.:>vernment
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