MOHD AQUIL Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY means of the present writ petition, the petitioner has assailed the order of detention dated 14-11- 2000, passed by the District Magistrate, Faizabad, under Section 3 (2) of the Na tional Security Act, 1980.

(2.) THE grounds of detention, upon which the order of detention was based, narrate a horrible story. According to the grounds of detention, the petitioner, his family and his friends have been in doctrinated and influenced by dogmatic religious preachings as a result of which he alleged to have placed a bomb in Sabarmati Express train. As a result of explosion of the said bomb the bodies of about ten persons were blown over in pieces. Such an incident also occurred in Aligarh Univer sity. THE person arrested there disclosed that he and the petitioner were involved in explosion of the bomb in Sabarmati Ex press train. It has been alleged in the grounds of detention that the petitioner accepted his involvement in the said inci dent in which ten persons were killed and damage was caused to the railways.

(3.) SUCH a representation should be decided without any delay because under Article 22 (5) of the Constitution, it should be decided "as soon as possible".