“The plaintiff petitioner is the Editor of the English daily newspaper “Searchlight of Patna.” The Secretary of the Patna Legislative Assembly called him to address the Committee of Privileges of the Assembly about why breached the privileges of the Speaker and the Assembly by publishing in its entirety a speech delivered in the Assembly by a member. Shri Sri Krishna Sinha and others., 1959 SCR Supl. Subodh Gopal Bose and others., 1954 SCR 587. (5) of the Constitution in so far as it prohibits a person detained from disclosing to the Court the grounds on which a detention order has been made or the representation made by him against the order of detention, and is to that extent ultra vires and void.” “Section 14 of the Preventive Detention Act, 1950, contravenes the provisions of Art. The court held that the act, with the exception of section 14, was not in “contravene” of the articles of constitution, and since the invalidity of section 14 did not affect the validity of the whole act, the detention was not illegal. He claimed that his detention was illegal. The plaintiff applied under article 32 of the constitution for a writ of hapeas corpus for release from detention, on the grounds that the act was unconstitutional, and went against article 13, 19, 21, 22. The plaintiff was detained under the “Preventive Detention Act (Act IV of 1950). Jurisprudence - Supreme Court Cases - IndiaĪ.K.
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