Supreme Court of India
S. Nambi Narayanan v. Siby Mathews & Others Etc.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the appellant was arrested and he has suffered custody for almost fifty days.
Judgment, page 15
From the headnote
Constitution of India: Art. 21 – Malicious investigation – Indiscriminate arrest of scientist – Compensation – Allegation of leakage of official secrets and documents of ISRO by scientists – Arrest of appellant-scientist, alleging espionage against scientists of IRSO – Appellant suffered custody for almost fifty days – Meanwhile, investigation by Special Investigation Team (SIT) handed over to CBI – Report by CBI that allegations not proved and were false – All accused discharged – In view thereof, decision by the State Government to conduct re-investigation – Challenge to, by the appellant…
Authorities it was built on
- 1996 D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal
- 1991 Delhi Judicial Service Association Tis Hazari Court, Delhi Etc. Etc. v. State of Gujarat and Ors. Etc. Etc.
- 2012 Vishwanath S/o Sitaram Agrawal v. Sau. Sarla Vishwanath Agrawal
- 2007 Japani Sahoo v. Chandra Sekhar Mohanty
- 2006 Sube Singh v. State of Haryana and Ors.
- 1989 Kiran Bedi & Ors. v. Committee of Inquiry & Anr.
- 1993 Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association Chandigarh through its Secretary. v. State of Punjab and Ors.
- 1998 K. Chandrasekhar Etc. v. The State of Kerala and Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2020 Nisha Priya Bhatia v. Union of India & Anr.
- 2022 Zakia Ahsan Jafri v. State of Gujarat & Anr.
- 2019 Dr. Ashwani Kumar v. Union of India and Another
- 2018 Romila Thapar and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to · 1 mentioned
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