PEBAM NINGOL MIKOI DEVI Vs. STATE OF MANIPUR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) LEAVE granted.

(2.) BY our order dated 14/9/2010, after hearing the learned counsel for the parties to the lis, we had directed the release of the detenu, since we were satisfied that the appellant prima-facie had made out a case for release of the detenu. Now we give our reasons for allowing this appeal in support of our pre-emptory order.

(3.) THE appellant is the wife of Mr. Ranjit Oinamcha @ Oinam Ranjit Singh, who is the detenu under the National Security Act. She is questioning the detention order dated 24/09/2009 passed by the District Magistrate, Imphal West District, Manipur, against which, a challenge was made in the form of a habeas corpus petition in the Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench) in Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 111/2009. By an order dated 18/02/2010, the High Court dismissed the writ petition. Aggrieved by the same, the appellant has filed this appeal.