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Monday, May 25, 2015

Importance of Procedures (Criminal Law - Preventive Detention)

Rekha v. State of T.N., (2011) 5 SCC 244 at page 257

38. Procedural rights are not based on sentimental concerns for the detenu. The procedural safeguards are not devised to coddle criminals or provide technical loopholes through which dangerous persons escape the consequences of their acts. They are basically society's assurances that the authorities will behave properly within rules distilled from long centuries of concrete experiences.


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