2000 INSC 0475
                                        SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

                                               Rupesh Kantilal Savla

                                                           Vs.

                                                   State of Gujarat

                            (G. B. Pattanaik, R. P. Sethi and Shivaraj V. Patil JJ.)

                                                      04.04.2000

                                                       ORDER

The Text below is only a summarized version of the order pronounced

It was held that there is no prescribed period for disposal of application of Habeas Corpus but every
High Court should dispose it of as expeditiously as possible. Thus, Gujrat High Court should not
have taken unusual time in disposing of the detention matter (order of detention was passed u s 3 of
the Prevention of Black Marketing and Maintenance of Supplies of Essential Commodities Act,
1980). Also, the representation of the detenu to the Central Government was not disposed of in
reasonable time and affidavit of Central Government gave no explanation for it. That was the denial
of right under Article 22(5) of the Constitution to the detenue. Thus, detention order in each case
was quashed.