Supreme Court of India

Smt. Angoori Devi for Ram Ratan v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [1988] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 1023
Bench G.L. Oza and K. Jagannatha Shetiy JJ.
Decided 6 December 1988

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National Security Act, 1980,· s. 3_.:_Detenus-Two police person· nel in Seeurity Unit-Offence committed u/s 392/34 I.P. .-An isolated criminal act-Does not disturb 'public order'-'Public Order' and 'law and order'-Distinction between. The detenu, in the writ petitions filed· by the petitioners under Article 32 of the Constitution, belonged to the Security Unit of Delhi Police. While on duty, they were alleged to have stopped a ·rickshaw puller who was carrying some goods to a transport company. They caught bold of him and started beating 0 him and asked for a receipt for the goods. Thereafter

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