Supreme Court of India

Additional Secretary to the Government of India and Ors. v. Smt. Alka Subhash Gadia and Anr.

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Reported as [1990] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 583
Bench A.M. Ahmadi, P.B. Sawant and S.C. Agrawal JJ.
Decided 20 December 1990

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that both the orders of the High Court directing the appellants to furnish to the detenu or to the first respondent or her counsel the order of detention, the grounds of detention and the documents supporting them as well as the contempt notice of 30th June, 1989 are clearly illegal and unjustified and they are hereby quashed.

Judgment, page 31

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Constitution of India, 1950: Articles 14, 19, 21 and 22-Liberty of a person-Deprival of-Whether permissible without apprising grounds of arrest-Whether State required to disclose facts in advance. Articles 32 and 226--Jurisdictionary powers of judicial review­ Whether Courts could refuse to exercise-Non-interference with the termination order at pre-execution stage-Whether amounts to aban­ donment of power and denial to the proposed detenu remedy of judicial review and right to challenge the order. Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974: Section 3(

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