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A. K. Gopalan v. State of Madras

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All six judges wrote separate opinions. The majority held that Section 14 of the Act, which restricted disclosure of the grounds of detention, was unconstitutional. Justice Fazl Ali wrote a dissenting judgment. The case is also considered landmark in the sense that the question of Preamble was raised
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against his detention. Gopalan was prohibited from disclosing the grounds under which he was detained because of Section 14 of the Act, which prohibited such disclosure even in a court of law. He claimed that the order detaining him violated Articles 14, 19, and 21 of the Constitution and that the
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had been under detention since December 1947, since his sentencing under ordinary criminal law. Those convictions were subsequently set aside. On 1 March 1950, while he was in Madras jail, Gopalan was served with an order made under Section 3(1) of the Preventive Detention Act, 1950. The provision
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standard. In doing so, the Court upheld the validity of the Preventive Detention Act, 1950, with the exception of Section 14, which provided that the grounds of detention communicated to the detainee or any representation made by him against these grounds cannot be disclosed in a court of law.
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allows the Central Government or the State Government to detain anyone in order to prevent them from acting in any manner prejudicial to the national defense, foreign relations, national security, state security, public order, or the maintenance of essential supplies and services.
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in the court. The Supreme Court, then held that, preamble cannot be used for interpretation of the constitution
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in which the Court ruled that Article 21 of the Constitution did not require Indian courts to apply a
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provisions of the Act violated Article 22 of the Constitution.
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Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India
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Constitution of India
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habeas corpus
M. K. Nambiar


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