Madras High Court Allows Habeas Corpus Petition in Goonda Detention Case Due to Unexplained Delay — Detention Order Quashed as Live and Proximate Link Snapped. Preventive detention under Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982 held invalid where 54-day delay between arrest and detention order remained unexplained, following Sushanta Kumar Banik v. State of Tripura....
The petitioner, brother of the detenu Kumar, filed a habeas corpus petition challenging the detention order passed by the Commissioner of Police, Avadi City, under the Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982 brandi...




