Supreme Court of India

Shiv Ratan Maklm S/o Nandlal Maklm v. Union of India and Ors.

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Reported as [1985] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 843
Bench Bhagwati and R.S. Pathak JJ.
Decided 16 December 1985

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that here the lapse of time between the. date of the· incident and the date of the order of detention has . been sufficiently . explained by the detaining authority and hence we are not prepared to draw the inference of . n:.alafides merely because the order of detention happened to be . made about five months after the petitioner was ·found carrying two pieces of foreign marked gold.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974, s.3 - Detention order - Solitary incident - Whether sufficient for detention - Time gap between incident and detention order - Whether vitiates order - Detention order - Whether call be made to !:!ubvert, supplant or substitute the punitive law. The petitioner while returning from Nepal was intercepted by the Customs Officers in the morning of' 20th November, 1984 and searched in the presence of independent witnesses. From his trousers' pocket two pieces of foreign marked gold in the shape of round tablets

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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