Supreme Court of India

Pushkar Mukherjee & Ors. v. The State of West Bengal

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Reported as [1969] 2 S.C.R. 635
Bench J. C. Shah, V. Ramaswami and A. N. Grover JJ.
Decided 7 November 1968

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c Preventive Detention Act, s. 3(1)-"Public order'', meaning of­ Whether takes in assau!t on solitary individuals-One of the grounds ir­ relevant or vague-If detention sustainable. Jn petitions for the writ of habeas corpus under Art. 32 of the Consti­ tution for release from detention under orders passed under s. 3(2) of the Prevention of Detention Act, HELD : The reasonableness of the satisfaction of the detaining autho­ rity cannot be questioned in a Court of law; the adequacy of the mate­ rial on which the said satisfaction purports to rest also cannot be examined in a Court of law. But

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