Supreme Court of India

Smt. Pebam Ningol Miko Devi v. State of Manipur and Ors.

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Reported as [2010] 12 S.C.R. 429
Bench D.K. Jain and H.L. Dattu JJ.
Decided 27 September 2010

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What the Court ordered

Before parting with the case, we wish to add that in a criminal case, if it is initiated against the detenu, the prosecution would not be in a position to procure evidence to sustain conviction cannot be a ground to pass an order of preventive detention under National Security Act.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

National Security Act, 1980 - s. 3(2) - Preventive detention - Legality - Editor of a Daily evening paper detained under the National Security Act - Detention order - Challenge to - Held: There was no reasonable basis for the detention order, and there was no material to support the same - None of the documents relied on by the detaining Authority in passing the detention order could be deemed to be pertinent - Delay in forwarding the representation of the detenu to Central Government also remained unexplained - Sufficient ground made out for quashing the order of preventive detention -

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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