Supreme Court of India

In Re : Sushanta Goswami and Others v. No Respondent

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Reported as [1969] 3 S.C.R. 138
Bench J.C. Shah J.
Decided 17 December 1968

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Constitution of India, 1950, Art. 22(5)-Preventive Detention Act 4 of 1950 s. 3(2)-Grounds of detention-Detention cannot be upheld if anv of the grounds is irrelevant-'Maintenance of public order' when affected. The petitioners were detained under the Preventive Detention Act. 1950. They filed a petition for Habeas Corpus under Art. 32 of the Constitution. The Court considered their cases individually in the light of the grounds of detention supplied to them. HELD : ( i) If some of the grounds whid,h are given are irrelevant the order of detention cannot be upheld because the court cannot

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