Supreme Court of India

Vashisht Narain Karwaria v. State of U.P. and Anr.

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Reported as [1990] 2 S.C.R. 212
Bench S. Ratnavel Pandian and K. Jayachandra C Reddy JJ.
Decided 28 March 1990

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we without going into the merits of the other con­ tentions allow this appeal, quash the detention order and direct the H detenu to be set at liberty forthwith .. - V.N. KARWARIA v.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

National Security Act, 1980: Section 3(3), 5A: Preventive Deten­ tion-Subjective Satisfaction-Copies of police reports, alleging that detenu is a hardened criminal and habitual offender against whom many criminal cases are registered, placed before the detaining authority while only one criminal case was registered against the detenu-Held­ Detention order is vitiated for taking into consideration extraneous material. Constitution of India, 1950: Article 22(5 )-Preventive Detention -Detention order-Grounds and documents communicated to detenu -No details or particulars .furnished supporting

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Of those, 2 mentioned

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