SHAMBHOO LAL SONI Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS petition, under Article 226 of the Constitution, challenges the detention order of Kailash Soni filed by his father Shambhoo Lal Soni made under section 3 (2) of the National Security Act, 1980 (hereinafter to be referred to as 'the Act') dated 27/5/1992.

(2.) THE District Superintendent of Police, Ajmer sent a report on 26/5/1992 to the Collector and Distt. Magistrate, Ajmer that an anti-social gang is indulging in obtaining naked and half naked photographs of girls and women and published the same in the newspapers, as a result of which public of Ajmer and several Social Organisations had agitated and even gone on hunger strike against Kailahs Soni and his associates. Those persons had been called as 'sexual Blackmailers'. THE public of Ajmer consistently making a demand for their arrest. In this report, the Distt. Superintendent of Police stated that the activities indulged into by the gang was serious and there was every likelihood of breach of peace and public order and even tempo of the life of the community,

(3.) THE validity of the National Security Act was challenged before the Supreme Court in the case reported in A. K. Roy V/s. Union of India (1 ).