PARVEZ Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Government Advocate for the respondents. The petitioner is challenging his detention by the impugned order dated 29-4-2001 under Section 3 of the National Security Act.

(2.) THE grounds of detention state that on 14-4-2001 at about 9. 40 a. m. the police party raided the house of the petitioner and found that there was about 50 Kg. fresh flesh of cow and an axe which had pieces of fresh flesh on it which showed that the petitioner and his associates had slaughtered a cow. On the knowledge of this people of the locality became agitated and thousands of people sat on Dharna in opposition to this. THEre was a procession and the market was closed and public order was disturbed. On 16-4-2001 there was another raid in which there was recovery of the hide of the cow which was slaughtered. THEre was communal tension. Had the police not acted in time, the situation would have gone out of control and many people could have been killed in a communal riot. THE order also states that the petitioner is making efforts to be released on bail.

(3.) THE petitioner and his associates have acted in an utterly irresponsible manner and had the police not intervened in time, there could certainly have been communal riot in Sikandararao in Hathras where the incident took place. This Court cannot condone the mischief committed by the petitioner and his associates.