Delhi Court October 1988 Judgments

Aziz Ahmed Vs. Union of India and ors.

Court: Delhi

Reported in: 1989(16)DRJ10

Malik Sharief-ud-din, J.(1) The petitioner who himself is a detenu has challenged the order of his detention dated 12th of January, 1988 passed under Section 3(1) of the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974 (as amended) by Shri K.L. Verma, Joint Secretary to the Government of India. This followed an incident dated 21st of November, 1987 when a narcotic smuggling ring was busted in New York pursuant to which the functionaries of the Narcotic Control Bureau in India were alerted and they started investigating links of various persons connected with the conspiracy to smuggle narcotics out of India and the manner in which it was being smuggled out. The petitioner was arrested as a part of this conspiracy after one Sukh Dev Singh and Narinder Vashnoi were found in hotel Ashoka and were found carrying the telephone number of the detenu. While the narcotic people were there the petitioner also arrived there and he was allegedly removed to the headq...