Supreme Court of India

K.K. Saravana Babu v. State of Tamil Nadu & Anr.

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Reported as [2008] 12 S.C.R. 468
Bench Dalveer Bhandari and Harjit Singh Bedi JJ.
Decided 22 August 2008

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Preventive Detention - Detention of detenu relying on two criminal cases against him relating to land grabbing - c Propriety of - Held: Detention order is arbitrary, illegal and unsustainable - Even if criminal cases relied on by detaining authority are assumed to be correct, no case of disturbance of public order is made out - Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest 0 Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders, Sand Offenders, Slum Grabbers and Video Pirates Act, 1982 - .3(1). Words and Phrases - 'Public order' - Meaning of in ....... the

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