DILIP NAYAK Vs. DISTRICT MAGISTRATE BURDWAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner challenges an order of detention passed under sub section (1) read with sub-section (2) of S. 3 of the Maintenance of Internal Security Act; 1971, by the District Magistrate, Burdwan,, on 14-9-1972 and prays for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus.

(2.) The grounds of detention stated:

(3.) In respect of the incidents mentioned in the grounds, two criminal cases were filed against the petitioner and his associates in the Court of Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Asansol. The petitioner could not be arrested in connection with these cases as he was absconding. Since witnesses were unwilling to give evidence against the petitioner and his associates on account of their desperate character, the petitioner was discharged from the cases on the basis of police report to that effect.