Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 783 · Decided 5 September 2018
The State of Maharashtra & ORS. v. Tasneem Rizwan Siddiquee
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 783 · [2018] 11 S.C.R. 374
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1124/2018
- Decided
- 5 September 2018
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, A.M. KHANWILKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Leave Granted & Allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 420, 201, 171, 467, 468, 120; CrPC Section 160, 41; Information Technology Act Section 66, 72, 72(a)
Headnote
Writs - Habeas Corpus - Husband of respondent was arrested by police in connection to an offence under investigation - Thereafter, Magistrate remanded him to police custody - Whether a writ of habeas corpus could be maintained who is in police custody pursuant to a remand order passed by the jurisdictional Magistrate in connection with offence under investigation - High Court held that husband of respondent was illegally and unlawfully detained by the police and made scathing observations against the police
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