State Of Maharashtra & Ors vs Santosh Shankar Acharya on 1 August, 2000
11. Hence, in view of law laid down in State of Maharashtra v.
Santosh Shankar Acharya reported in (2000) 7 SCC 463 was re-affirmed
by the Hon’ble three Judges bench of the Supreme Court in Crl.A.No:728 of
2000, this court is inclined to accept the contention of the learned counsel
for the detenue that the detaining authority in the impugned detention order
has not informed the right of detenu to make a representation before the
detaining authority within 12 days, which resulted in infraction of Article
22 of Constitution of India. so, the impugned detention order is liable to be
quashed.