Supreme Court of India

The Secretary to Government, Public (law and Order-f) and Another. v. Nabila and Another.

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Reported as [2014] 12 S.C.R. 405
Bench M.Y. Eqbal and Shiva Kirti Singh JJ.
Decided 9 December 2014

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that the impugned order passed by the High Court cannot be sustained.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

National Security Act, 1980: s.3(1)(a) - Preventive detention - Order of detention primarily based on the confession!J/ statement leading to seizure of incriminating articles containing official secrets relating to Indian Defence Forces - Habeas Corpus petition by wife of detenu on the ground that the detenu was detained on a solitary ground case and sponsoring authority has failed to place any material before the detaining authority to show that either the detenu - himself or his relatives have filed bail application - High Court setting aside the order of detention - Held: The detenu was

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