Supreme Court of India

Abhay Shridhar Ambulkar v. S.V. Bhave, Commissioner of Police and Ors.

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Bench K. Jagannath Shetiy and A.M. Ahmadi JJ.
Decided 17 December 1990

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we allow the writ petition, quash the Government order dated 6th January, 1990.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

c Preventive Detention. National Security Act, 1980: Section 3(2) & (3)-Detention order-Confirment of power on Commissioner of Police to exercise powers conferred on the State Government by sub-section (2) of Section 3-Use of the desjunctive word 'or' in the order confering power on the commissioner indicates non-application of mind-Subjective satisfac­ tion can not be lightly recorded by reproducing both the alternative clauses of the Statute.

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 mentioned

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