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PETITIONER: JAGAN NATH SATHU
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE UNION OF INDIA
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 20/01/1960
BENCH: IMAM, SYED JAFFER BENCH: IMAM, SYED JAFFER SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P.(CJ) SARKAR, A.K. WANCHOO, K.N. SHAH, J.C.
CITATION: 1960 AIR 625 1960 SCR (2) 784
ACT: Preventive detention--Status of Pakistan in relation to India if a foreign power-Grounds of detention-Principles of natural justice-Preventive Detention Act. 1950 (4 of 1950),- Constitution of India, Item 9, List 1, Seventh Schedule.
HEADNOTE: The petitioner was detained by an order of the Central Government under s. 3, of the Preventive Detention Act, 1950. The Advisory Board which considered the petitioner’s case in accordance with the provisions of the Act did not recommend that the order of detention should be withdrawn. The allegations against the petitioner were that he was carrying on propaganda of hatred and contempt against the Government of India and the State of Jammu and Kashmir by sending for publication in a widely published foreign Newspaper, false, one-sided and misleading information about the administration of the State and the condition of India in general and the said State in particular. The petitioner’s contentions, inter alia, were that being a member of the Commonwealth, Pakistan, where the newspaper was published, was not a Foreign State and coul...