Bombay High Court Quashes Preventive Detention Order Under PITNDPS Act Due to Inordinate Delay in Execution — Detenu Surrendered Voluntarily After 17 Years, Detention Order Held Stale and Non-Operative. The court held that an unexplained delay of 17 years between the passing of a detention order under Section 3(1) of the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988 and its execution renders the order stale and vitiates the subjective satisfaction of the detaining authority....
The petitioner, Smt. Heena Kausar, filed a Criminal Writ Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking to set aside a preventive detention order dated 02/09/1994 passed by Respondent...
