Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 60 · Decided 25 February 1987
State of U.P. v. Hari Shankar Tewari
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 60 · [1987] 2 S.C.R. 426
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 106/1987
- Decided
- 25 February 1987
- Bench
- R.S. PATHAK, RANGANATH MISRA, M.M. DUTT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
National Security Act, 1980-Section 3(2)-Detention Order­ Assailed in Court-Duty of Court-To find out whether impugned activities affect 'Public order' or 'law and order'. . A Division Bench of the High Court quashed the order of deten­ tion of the respondent, made under Section 3(2) of in the case of Ashok Dixit v. State and others that a solitary assault on one individual which may well he equaled with ordinary murder can hardly D be said to disturb public peace of place public order in jeopardy so as to bring the case within the purview of the Act, that it can·only
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