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Parliamentary Debates Parliament of India Monday 19th February 1951 Part II - Proceedings other than Questions and Answers Official Report

1951

The point to be remembered is that this six weeks' time applies to the time within which the Government will have to do the following things: To place before the Advisory Board the grounds on which the order has been given, the representation, if any made by the person affected by the order and in cases where the order is reported by an officer, the report made by such an officer. [...] Similarly, even the law has gone so far as to suggest that it is the duty of the Public Prosecutor to tell if there are any weak points in the prosecution case to the counsel for the accused; my humble submission is that the Government should not withhold anything which is favourable to the detenu, and therefore, it is the duty of the Government to place every- thing before that body which they ha [...] - The reason why I have suggested this new clause is that both in the in- terests of the detenu as well as in the interests of the fundamental rights of the people it is necessary that whatever material the Government possesses for the detention of the person concerned should be placed before the Board. [...] The original sub-section 3 of section 10 is not amended and in the latter part it says: "and the proceedings of the Ad- visory Board and its report, ex- cepting that part of the report in which the opinion of the Advisory Board is specified, shall be confi- dential. " It means that the report which gives the opinion of the Board would be pub- lic property and that part which con- tains the materia [...] The only thing that has been done is that all cases will go to the Boards hence- forth, but if the Boards were to func- tion in a spirit of justice, in the spirit of a tribunal and in the spirit of the Constitution, iq the spirit of the Preamble, which guarantees to the citizen liberty, equality and fraternity, I would again repeat to the Home Minister to see that this modicum of power, the minimu
government politics public policy
Pages
54
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100013
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
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Death of Shri Khurshed Lal
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Requisitioned Land (Continuance of Powers) Amendment: Bill
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Indian Boilers (Amendment) Bill
3061-3061 unknown view
Report re Delhi (Chandni Chauk) Clock Tower
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Preventive Detention (Amendment) Bil
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Backmatter
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