Supreme Court of India
Ummu Sabeena v. State of Kerala & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the procedural safeguards given for protection of personal liberty must be strictly followed.
Judgment, page 9
From the headnote
Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974 (COFEPOSA) - s.3 - Order of detention under - Representation made by detenus - Central Government took two months to dispose of the detention representation - Held: Orders of detention quashed on the ground of delay on the part of the Central Government in disposing of the representation of the detenus - Expression 'as soon as may be' in sub-clause (5) of Article 22 of the Constitution sufficiently makes clear the concern of the framers of the Constitution that the representation should be very expeditiously
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Where later benches applied it
- 2020 Indu Bai & Ors. v. State of Telangana & Ors.
- 2012 Manubhai Ratilal Patel Tr. Ushaben v. State of Gujarat & Ors.
- 2014 Subrata Roy Sahara v. Union of India and Others
- 2013 Abdul Nasar Adam Ismail through Abdul Basheer Adam Ismail v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors
Of those, 2 referred to · 2 mentioned
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