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PETITIONER: KESHAV NILKANTH JOGLEKAR
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, GREATERBOMBAY(and connected peti
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 17/09/1956
BENCH: AIYYAR, T.L. VENKATARAMA BENCH: AIYYAR, T.L. VENKATARAMA DAS, SUDHI RANJAN (CJ) SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P. DAS, S.K. MENON, P. GOVINDA
CITATION: 1957 AIR 28 1956 SCR 653
ACT: Preventive detention-Detention order by the Commissioner-of Police-Duty to report forthwith to the State Government- "Forthwith", Meaning of-Time taken for sending report- Validity of detention-Preventive Detention Act, 1950 (IV of 1950), ss. 3(3), 7.
HEADNOTE: Section 3(3) of the Preventive Detention Act, 1950, provides that when an order of detention is made by an officer mentioned in s. 3(2) he shall forthwith report the fact to the State Government together with the grounds on which the order has been made..... and no such order...... shall remain in force for more than twelve days after the making thereof unless in the meantime it has been approved by the State Government. On 13th January 1956 the Commissioner of Police, Bombay, passed orders under s. 3(2) of the Preventive Detention Act, 1950 directing the detention of the petitioners and in pursuance thereof’ they were arrested on 16th January 1956 The grounds on which the orders were made were furnished to the--petitioners on 20th January 1956 and the next day the Commis...