Rekha vs The State Of Tamil Nadu on 16 June, 2015
8. The Detaining Authority referred to the fact that no bail
applications were filed in the adverse cases, namely, Crime No.144 of 2015
registered on the file of Seevalaperi Police Station and Crime No.155 of 2015
registered on the file of Sivanthipatti Police Station. However, the
Detaining Authority proceeded further to express a subjective satisfaction
that there was real possibility of the detenu coming out on bail by filing a
bail application, since in a similar case, not being a case of a co-accused
in the very same case, another person was granted bail by the learned
Judicial Magistrate No.V, Tirunelveli in CRMP.No.3795 of 2014 on 17.07.2014.
Such a comparison of bail order passed in another case, when no bail
application is pending, to express subjective satisfaction of the real
possibility of the detenu coming out on bail is against the dictum laid down
by a Larger Bench of the Supreme Court in Rekha Vs. State of Tamil Nadu,
reported in (2011) 5 SCC 244, followed by a Division Bench of the Hon'ble
Supreme Court in Huidrom Konungjao Singh Vs. State of Manipur and others
reported in (2012) 7 SCC 181 and by this Court in an unreported decision in
H.C.P(MD).No.1567 of 2015 [Sri Devi Vs. Secretary to Government of Tamil
Nadu, Home Prohibition and Excise Department and others], vide order dated
14.12.2015. Hence, as rightly contended by the learned counsel for the
petitioner, the Order of Detention is vitiated on the said ground alone.