SC quashes detention order for failure to consider retraction of confession.
Prem Prakash Versus Union of India and Ors.
Prem Prakash Versus Union of India and Ors. - 2000 (7) SCC 163 The Supreme Court allowed the appeal, set aside the detention order, and quashed it due to the non-consideration of the retraction of the confessional statement by the detenu. The detenu had retracted the statement the day after it was recorded, which was not brought to the notice of the detaining authority. The Court relied on a previous case where a similar situation invalidated the detention order.