Supreme Court of India

Syed Farooq Mohammad v. Union of India and Anr.

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Reported as [1990] 3 S.C.R. 240
Bench B.C. Ray and P.B. Sawant JJ.
Decided 14 May 1990

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Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988: Section 3( 1) and 8. Preventive detention-'Live and proximate link' is necessary between grounds of detention and purpose of detention-Long and unexplained delay between the date of detention order and the arrest of detenu-Court can assume that link is snapped-But if delay is because of detenu's recalcitrant conduct in evading arrest then link is not snap­ ped but strengthened. Preventive detention-Counter affidavit-Not sworn by detaining authority himself- verments in the affidavit whether to be taken note

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