Supreme Court of India
Seeni Nainar Mohammed v. State Rep. by Deputy Superintendent of Police
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Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987 - s.20A - Cognizance of offence - Prior approval of sanctioning authority - Compliance of - On facts, individual attacked by appellants with weapons, resulting in his death - Conviction of the appellants uls. J 20B rlw ss. 302, 147, 148 and 149 JPC and ss. 3(2), (3), (4) of TADA and sentenced to life imprisonment by courts below - On appeal, held: Section 20- (l) must be construed by indicating that prior approval from the competent authority is mandatory for taking cognizance of offence punishable under TADA - However, sanctioning…
Authorities it was built on
- 1994 Kartar Singh v. State of Punjab
- 2005 State (n.c.t. of Delhi) v. Navjot Sandhu@afsan Guru
- 1994 Hitendra Vishnu Thakur and Ors. v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.
- 1994 Suresh Chandra Bahri Etc. Etc. v. State of Bihar
- 2012 Ashrafkhan @ Babu Munnekhan Pathan v. State of Gujarat
- 2013 State of Maharashtra through C.B.I. v. Mahesh G. Jain
- 2014 Hussein Ghadially @m.h.g.a. Shaikh & Ors. v. State of Gujarat
- 2010 Kootha Perumal v. State Tr. Inspector of Police, Vigilance & Anti Corruption
Where later benches applied it
- 2024 Fuleshwar Gope v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2019 The State of Gujarat v. Anwar Osman Sumbhaniya and Ors.
Of those, 2 referred to
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