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published Published on Jan 9, 2012   modified Modified on Jan 9, 2012
-The Telegraph
 
The Supreme Court has set aside a Manipur magistrate’s preventive detention order against a member of the banned Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup group, saying it had been passed “casually” based on fears he might get bail.

The top court ruled that such orders couldn’t be passed just because the state apprehended that an accused might get bail from normal criminal courts or because a person had been charged with a serious offence in the past.

Under preventive detention, a person can be detained for up to a year but can appeal to an advisory board for bail.

The apex court said an individual’s “personal liberty” was the most “precious and prized right” guaranteed by the Constitution. As the state had been “granted the power to curb such rights under criminal laws and laws of preventive detention”, they needed to be “exercised with due caution and proper appreciation” of facts, the court said.

While the ruling freed Yumman Somendro from preventive detention, his freedom would depend on whether he is wanted in other cases.

The ruling came on a petition filed by Somendro’s wife Yumman Ongbi Lembi Leima, who challenged the detention order passed by the district magistrate of Imphal West.

The magistrate had on January 31, 2011, passed the order under the National Security Act, 1980, against Somendro, a member of the Manipur-based militant group, following his arrest in a murder case.

The Manipur governor had later confirmed the order and fixed the detention period for 12 months from March 18.

Under normal laws, Somendro would have been eligible for bail much earlier.

Somendro had earlier been arrested in March 1994 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, but was released on bail. He was arrested again in June 1995 for extortion and released on bail in July 1998.

His latest arrest was on January 16, 2011, on a murder charge. The next day he was produced before the magistrate, who remanded him in police custody till January 31, 2011.

Somendro was served a copy of the order that said the “subjective satisfaction” of the detaining authority was founded on the belief that after getting bail from criminal courts, he might indulge in activities prejudicial to maintenance of public order.

His wife challenged the order before the Imphal bench of Gauhati High Court but without success. She then appealed to the top court, which ruled in her favour on January 4 this year.

The apex court said the mere apprehension that Somendro could be released on bail couldn’t be a ground for detention.

The bench also noted the time gap between the last time Somendro had been arrested and his preventive detention last January. “There is no live link between the earlier incidents and the incident in respect of which the detention order had been passed,” the court said.

“An individual offence, under the IPC, however, heinous, is insufficient to make out a case for issue of an order of preventive detention,” the court said.

The Telegraph, 9 January, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120109/jsp/nation/story_14981420.jsp


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