Supreme Court of India

Abdu Salam @thiyyan S/o Thiyyan Mohammad, Detenu No. 962, General Prison, Trivendrum v. Union of India and Others

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Reported as [1990] 2 S.C.R. 517
Bench S. Ratnavel Pandian and K. Jayachandra Reddy JJ.
Decided 17 April 1990

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that in this case the delay by itself does not invalidate the detention but even otherwise it has been reasonably G explained.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act-Section 3( ])-Detention order-Mere delay in arresting ,...,. aetenu-Whether casts doubt on the genuineness of the subjective c satisfaction of the detaining authority-Delay in making the detention - order and disposal of representation by the Central Government-... , Whether fatal. -#./ The appellant after his Haj pilgrimage bad been to Jeddah and from Jeddab he landed in Bombay on 15.9 .1987. Thereafter he boarded a bns to go to his native place in Kerala. On 17.9.1987, the Cnstoms authorities intercepted the bus

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