Supreme Court of India

Ayya Alias Ayub v. State of U.P. & Anr.

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Reported as [1988] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 967
Bench Ranganath Misra and M.N. Venkatachaliah JJ.
Decided 25 November 1988

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, the writ petition is allowed, the order of detention impugned in the petition quashed and the petitioner is directed to be set at liberty forthwith, unless he is held in custody pursuant to any other order under any lawful authority.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

Constitution of India, 1950: Article 21-Personal liberty­ Greatest of human freedoms-Preventive detention laws-To be strictly construed-Procedural safeguards-Meticulous compliance to be insisted upon. National Security Act, 1980: Sections 3 and 5-detention order- Subjective satisfaction of detaining authority-Necessity for-What would be a simple 'law and order' situation may assume gravity and mischief of 'public order' problem. c Statutory Interpretation: Preventive Detention laws to be strictly construed-meticulous compliance with procedural safeguards to be insisted upon. The

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 3 referred to

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