Supreme Court of India

Pritam Nath Hoon v. Union of India & Others

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Reported as [1981] 1 S.C.R. 682
Bench V. R. Krishna Iyer and A. D. Koshal JJ.
Decided 11 September 1980

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Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974-Non-supply and also belated supply of documents vitiate the preven­ tive detention and entitled the release of the' detenu-Panchnamas do not givl! 'the detenu full notice of the case against him or furnish all the materials which he needs- to make his representation-Guideline to detaining authority regarding supply of documents. Allowing the petition and ordering the release of the detenu forthwith, the . Court HELD : (Per Koshal, J.) (I) It is now settled law that the detaining autho­ rity is bound to give an

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