Madras High Court has invalidated the practice of notifying arrests through SMS, stating that it violates Constitutional Safeguards. The court quashed the detention under the Goondas Act, emphasising the importance of an individual’s right to effective representation as guaranteed by Article 22(5) of the Constitution. The petitioner Harini, argued that her husband’s arrest was intimated to her solely through an SMS without supporting material. Court deemed the SMS notification unacceptable, stressing the necessity of proper intimation and released the petitioner’s husband.
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