Supreme Court of India

Dmai

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Bench K. Ramaswamy, Sujata V. Manohar and G.B. Pattanaik JJ.
Decided 24 October 1996

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the view taken in Batti’s case is not correct in law.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

JUDGMENT: O R R Pursuant to the order of this Court dated August 21, 1987 doubting the correctness of Ibrahim Ahmad Batti vs. State of Gujarat & Ors. [(1983) 1 SCR 540 = (1982) 3 SCC 440], the case has been referred to this Bench. These appeals by special leave arise from the Division Bench judgment of the High Court of Rajasthan at Jodhpur in Writ Petition Nos.831/87 and batch. The facts are that the respondents were detained under Section 3(1) of the National Security Act, 1980 (for short, the ‘Act’), by proceedings of the District Magistrate, Jaisalmer dated January 7, 1987.

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