2002 (1) TMI 1219

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....ndent. JUDGMENT B.A. Khan, J.-The petitioner was detained under COFEPOSA for one year by order dated 29-1-2001. Though his detention period was to expire shortly by the end of this month but he still wants a verdict on the validity of his detention. 2. One Ms. Olga Kozireva, an Uzbek passport holder was apprehended for alleged smuggling of Chinese silk fabrics in India. The petitioner was....

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.... furnish him some legible copies of documents from pages 96 to 135 along with grounds. He was also not supplied copy of bail order dated 22-9-2000 of Ms. Olga Kozireva. All this according to him amounted to denial of opportunity to him to make an effective representation against his detention. 4. Though the petitioner had taken all these grounds in a generalised form, his counsel Mr. Bhardwaj p....

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....) because his counsel had confined his attack only on two grounds, viz., non-supply of legible copies of documents from pages 93-135 and some adjudication orders and delay in disposal of detenu's representation. 7. It is well settled that non-supply of relied upon documents by the detaining authority invalidates a detention as it tentamounts to denial of opportunity to the detenu to make an eff....

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....by any standard. These could be read and gone through and their text and context gathered with ease. 9. The petitioner's plea in this regard seems to be his mere ipsi dixit and bereft of any substance. It is also not shown how and in what manner it had prejudiced him and disabled him to make a representation against his detention. The first ground, therefore, fails and is rejected. 10. The s....