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AFJAL GURUR FANSI EKTI JUDICIAL HOTTAKANDA,

By: Mohd. Abdul Alim
Published by Farhan Akhtar Al Noman
Saljore, Lokepure, Birbhum, (W.B),
Mob: +91 8926199410
Rs. 25.00

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All powers belong to the people and it is entrusted by them to

specified institutions and functionaries with the intention of working
out, maintaining and operating a constitutional order. To any civilized
society, there can be no attributes more important than the life and
personal liberty of its members. That is evident from the paramount
position given by the courts to the Article 21 of the Constitution.
These twin attributes enjoy a fundamental ascendancy over all other
attributes of the political and social order and consequently, the
Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary are more sensitive to
them than to the other attributes of daily existence. The deprivation
of personal liberty and the threat of deprivation of life by the action
of the State is in most civilized societies regarded seriously and
recourse, either under express constitutional provision or through
legislative enactment is provided to the judicial organ. But, fallibility
of human judgment being undeniable even in the most trained mind,
a mind resourced by a harvest of experience, it has been considered
appropriate that in the matter of life and personal liberty, the
protection should be extended by entrusting power further to some
high authority to scrutinize the validity of the threatened denial of
life or the threatened or continued denial of personal liberty. The
power so entrusted is a power belonging to the people and reposed in

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the highest dignitary of the state. (AIR 1989 SC 653 State Vs Kehar
Singh)



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, The deprivation of
personal liberty and the threat of deprivation of life by the action of
the State is in most civilized societies regarded seriously and
recourse fallibility of human judgment being undeniable even
in the most trained mind

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POTO (Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance)
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-counsel had exercised her discretion reasonably. The appellant
accused did not object to this course adopted by the amicus
throughout the trial (SCJ, p 140)
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performance of the counsel, it cannot be said that the accused was
denied the facility of effective defence (ibid pp 141-42)

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Afzal is characterised as a menace to the society, whose life

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should become extinct to satisfy the collective conscience of the

society. (SCJ PP 203-04)


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