RANA ALIAS PARVINDER Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY the Court. Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and learned Government Counsel for the respondents.

(2.) THE petitioner has challenged the impugned detention order dated 12 -9 -2001 (Annexure -1 to the petition) under the N.S.A. The grounds of detention are annexed to the detention order and a perusal of the same shows that on 15 -6 -2001 at about 1.00 p.m., Sunil and Kaloo, who were accused in a criminal case, were being taken by constable Dusshrath and home guard Promod Kumar from police lockup to Mohammad Nagar, District Court. At that time the petitioner and his associates came and said that they should take revenge for the murder of Santar Pal. Petitioner and his associates fired with Kattas due to which Sunil and constable Dusshrath died and Kaloo was injured. When some persons tried to intervene they were also fired upon. The petitioner and his associates then ran away waving Kattas in their hands towards the railway station. They also fired in the air while running away. This caused panic and terror in the Bazar and shopkeepers closed their shops and residents entered into their house due to terror in the locality. Some stolen electric wire was also recovered at the pointing out of petitioner.

(3.) LEARNED Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was in custody at the time the detention order was passed and no bail application was pending. It has been held by the Supreme Court in Ahmed Nassar v. State of Tamil Nadu, 2000(1) JIC 221 (SC): 2000 Cr. L.J. 33 (SC), that a valid detention order can be passed against a person, who is in custody, even if no bail application is pending on his behalf, provided the detaining authority is aware that the detenue is in Jail and he is a satisfied that there is a possibility of his being released.