G K OHAB Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner challenges the validity of an order of detention passed under sub-section (1) read with sub-section (2) of section 3 of the Maintenance of Internal Security . 1971, on 18-3-1974 by the District Magistrate, Murshidabad.

(2.) The grounds. of detention communicated to the detenu are:

(3.) The, only contention raised by counsel for the petitioner as regards the validity of the detention order was that the first ground was vague inasmuch as it did not specify the duration of the secret meeting which the petitioner had with his associate Kala Majhi of Bangla Desh and many others in the house of his associate Azimuddin Biswas at Bartanabad in the ground and that although it is stated in the ground that it was at about 18:00 hrs. on 7-12-1972 that the petitioner carried weapons including unlicensed fire-arms and his participation in the dacoity in the house of Basi Charu Ullah Mandal at Radhakhatapore was at 23.00 hrs. there was no mention in the ground that it was on the same day.