MINNA @ MINTA @ JASVEER Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY means of this Habeas Corpus Writ Petition the petitioner has challenged the detention order dated 7.7.2014 passed by the respondent no. 3/ District Magistrate, Firozabad while exercising his powers under section 3(3) of the National Security Act, 1980. The petitioner has also prayed for releasing him forthwith.

(2.) WE have heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned AGA appearing for all the respondents and have perused the records.

(3.) LEARNED counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is a student and young man aged about 23 years. He has no criminal antecedent and apart from the present case no other criminal case is registered against him, but the respondent no. 3, only on the basis of reports of some newspapers, has passed the detention order against the petitioner. The State Government has also wrongly ratified it without application of mind. Hence he has prayed that both the orders be quashed.