Supreme Court of India

Mangalbhai Motiram Patel v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.

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Reported as [1981] 1 S.C.R. 852
Bench P. N. Bhagwati, A. P. Sen and E. S. Venkataramiah JJ.
Decided 26 September 1980

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Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act 1974-Section 3--Constitutional imperatives in cases of detention-Delay in supplying copies of docummts, if vitiates the order of de!tention. !. The constitutional imperatives indicated in Art. 22(5) are: firstly, the detaining authority must, as soon as practicable, after the detention, commu­ nicate to the detenu the grounds on which the order of detention has been made and secondly, the detaining authority must afford the detenu the earliest opportunity of making a representation against the order of detention.

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