Parliamentary Debates Parliament of India Thursday 15th February 1951 Part II - Proceedings other than Questions and Answers Official Report

We must nip the thing in the bud The liberty, of the individual is always conditioned by the security aril the interests of the State as was forcibly pointed out by the Deputy-Speaker in his speech quoting very high autho- rity. [...] Although the law expires only in the month of March, as I explained, the period of detention, that is twelve months, would expire in the case of almost all the persons in the last week of February and Gov- ernment would have no remedy to meet the situation if this Bill were held up even for a couple of weeks from now. [...] Under the law as it will be hereafter, if the Executive Govern- ments want the detention to be main- tained by the Board—I want to draw the pointed attention of the House to this—it is in its own interest to fur- nish all the necessary grounds, because if they do not furnish the grounds and the Advisory Board rejects the case, the Executive Government is bound by the award. [...] Once the rule is made that the award of the Advisory Board shall bind the executive Government, the non-disclosure of grounds will only lead to the disadvantage of the execu- tive Government so to say. [...] With your leave and with the leave of the House 1 would like to change the date in my amendment from the 1st of March to the 21st Of Feb- ruary.