grounds of detention

NSA preventive detention order right to representation
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The right to make a representation implies that the person detained must be informed of his right to make a representation to the authority that has made the order of detention at the time when he is served with the grounds of detention so as to enable him to make such a representation and the failure to do so results in denial of the right to make representation and renders the order invalid.”

Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Communication means imparting to the petitioner sufficient and effective knowledge of the facts and circumstances on which the order of detention is passed and such communication in such language which the petitioner understands.”

Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“In other words, a detenue may be able to make an effective representation if the details of the facts, on the basis of which conclusion is drawn by the detaining authority, are furnished to him”.

preventive detention grounds of detention ambiguous
Cases ReportedNever Reported Judgments

This report covers the Supreme Court’s Never Reported Judgment dating back to the year 1952 on the Preventive Detention Act, 1950.

Delhi High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Signing in English and understanding English are two different things and it cannot be said that if one signs in English, therefore he has full understanding of the language. In other order, the ability to write one’s signature in English does not translate to having a working understanding of the language.

Case BriefsSupreme Court

Supreme Court: In the case where the detenu was detained under the Telangana Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Dacoits, Drug Offenders,