Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 805 · Decided 17 November 2011
Ummu Sabeena v. State of Kerala & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 805 · [2011] 13 S.C.R. 185
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2136/2011
- Decided
- 17 November 2011
- Bench
- A.K. GANGULY, J.S. KHEHAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 22, 22(5), 226
Headnote
A B Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974 (COFEPOSA) - s.3 - Order C of detention under - Representation made by detenus - Central Government took two months to dispose of the detention representation - Held: Orders of detention quashed on the ground of of the Central Government in disposing of the representation of the detenus - D Expression 'as soon as may be' in sub-clause (5) of Article 22 of the Constitution sufficiently makes clear the concern of the framers of the Constitution that the representation should be very expeditiously
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