Supreme Court of India

Naresh Kumar Goyal v. Union of India and Ors.

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Reported as [2005] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 17
Bench B.P. Singh, Tarun Chatterjee and P.K. B Balasubramany An JJ.
Decided 5 October 2005

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Preventive Detention-Object of-,-He/d: ls not curative or reformative or punitive-It is devised to afford protection to society from anti-social and subversive elements-The object is not to punish a man for having done something but to intercept before he does it, and to prevent him from doing so. Preventive Detention-Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974-Sections 3(i), (ii) and (iiij and 7-Detenu filed writ petition challenging the order of detention-Case of detenu that the detention order wm belatedly passed and also that the detaining authority

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