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TMI Blog1990 (3) TMI 161X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... d sufficient knowledge about the detention of the detenu by virtue of the mittimus issued as well the place of detention. Therefore, no legitimate grievance can be made that there is a contravention to the observation in A.K. Roy’s case [1981 (12) TMI 159 - SUPREME COURT. - 750 of 1989 - - - Dated:- 1-3-1990 - S. Ratnavel Pandian and K. Jayachandra Reddy, JJ. REPRESENTED BY : Shri Kapil Sibal, Addl. Solicitor General, Shri A. Subba Rao Shri P. Parmeshwaran, Advocates with him, for the Appellants. Shri Vineet Kumar and Shri M.N. Shroff, Advocates with him, for the Respondents. [Judgment per : S. Ratnavel Pandian, J]. - This criminal appeal preferred by the appellants, namely, Union of India and the Additional Secretary t ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... from the record, it is found that the relatives had come to know about it from some source, the order of detention would most certainly be invalidated. In the result, the order of detention was quashed and the detenu was directed to be set at liberty. 2. Mr. Kapil Sibbal, the learned Additional Solicitor General has assailed the finding of the High Court stating that the Respondent No. 1 (detenu) was already an undertrial prisoner and his relatives inclusive of his maternal uncle had visited him at the jail within two days and, therefore, that the non-communication of a written intimation about the fact of passing of the order of detention and of the place of detention in pursuance of the detention order have no significance, and as su ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... after a person is taken in custody in pursuance of an order of detention, the members of his household, preferably the parent, the child or the spouse, must be informed in writing of the passing of the order of detention and of the fact that the detenu has been taken in custody. Intimation must also be given as to the place of detention, including the place where the detenu is transferred from lime to time. The object and purpose of the above observation, in our view, seem to be that the family members of the detenu should not be kept in darkness by withholding the information about the passing of the order of detention and the place of detention thereby preventing them from having any access and from rendering any help or assistance to ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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