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PETITIONER: SHAMRAO VISHNU PARULEKAR
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, THANA(and connected petition)
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 23 1956 SCR 644
ACT: Preventive detention-Order of detention by the District Magistrate-Report sent to the State Government-Approval by the State-Grounds for the order sent later-Validity of detention-"Grounds on which the order has been made", Interpretation of-Preventive Detention Act, 1960 (IV of 1950), ss. 3(2)(3), 7.
HEADNOTE: Sub-section (3) of s. 3 of the Preventive Detention Act, 1950, provides that when an order of detention is made under subsection (2) by an officer mentioned therein, 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 then twelve days after the making thereof unless in the meantime it has been approved by the State Government. Under s. 7(1) "when a person is detained in pursuance of a detention order, the authority making the order shall ... communicate to him the grounds on which the order has been made, and shall afford him the earliest opportunity of making a representation against the order to the appropr...