Supreme Court of India
Sudhir Kumar Saha v. Commissioner of Police, Calcutta & Anr.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that the grounds stated in support of the detention cannot amount to a disturbance of the maintenance of 'public order'.
Judgment, page 3
From the headnote
Preventive Detention Act (4 of 1950), s. 3(2)-Acts prejudicial to maintenance of public order-What are. The petitioner along with others, committed various offences on three occasions. On the first occasion be attacked the people of a locality with a knife and by hurling 'bottles at them. On the other two occasions he attacked the pe<iple of another locality, by hurling bombs at them. He was detained under s. 3(2) of the Preventive Detention Act, ~50, with a view to preventing him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order. In a petition under Art. 32 for the
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