Supreme Court · 1978 INSC 147 · Decided 30 August 1978
Sunil Batra ETC. v. Delhi Administration and ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1978 INSC 147 · [1979] 1 S.C.R. 392
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 2202/1977
- Decided
- 30 August 1978
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, V.R. KRISHNA IYER, S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI, P.N. SHINGAL, D.A. DESAI (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 73, 74; CrPC Section 366(2); Constitution Article 14, 21
Headnote
~ \ .' . . ' . -- Prisons Act 1894--Seclion 30-Scope ·of-Solitary confinement-Imposition of bar-fett"ers ulider s. 56 on a prisoner-Whether violates Artic(es .. 14,_ 19, 21 of _the Constitution 1950.- :-~ - Practice and Procedure-ll/ecessity organisation to inten·ene in the litigative procesJ . . -. P~iso~ Act 1894.~nd Punjab Jail Manual-Need for revision to re-fleet the deeper rneaning in the behavioural norms, correctional a!ti:ude1 and hunrane Orientdtion for the prison staff and prisoners alike. -- ·-- --=::- Words
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