Supreme Court of India

Ummu Sabeena v. State of Kerala & Ors.

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Reported as [2011] 13 S.C.R. 185
Bench Asok Kumar Ganguly and Jagdish Singh Khehar JJ.
Decided 17 November 2011

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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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