Supreme Court of India

A. Sowkath Ali v. Union of India and Ors.

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Reported as [2000] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 48

Bench A.P. Misra and N. Santosh Hegde JJ.

Decided 1 August 2000

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the impugned detention order dated 23rd December, 1999, suffers from patent illegality and thus cannot be sustained.

Judgment, page 19

Authorities it was built on

1990 M. Ahamedkutty v. Union of India & Anr. cited by 10
1999 Ahamed Nassar v. State of Tamil Nadu and Ors. cited by 6
1967 Konchada Ramamurthy Subudhi & Anr. v. Gopinath Naik cited by 6
1988 Neelakantan & Bros. Construction v. Superintending Engineer, National Highways, Salem & Ors. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2024 Jaseela Shaji v. The Union of India & Ors referred to
2019 Union of India through Joint Secretary (cofeposa), Ministry of Finance, New Delhi v. Ankit Ashok Jalan referred to
2012 Baby Devassy Chully @ Bobby v. Union of India & Ors. referred to

Of those, 3 referred to

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