https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=274696 A detention order under section 3 of the West Bengal (Prevention of Violent Activities) Act, 1970 was upheld where it stated that detention was necessary to prevent conduct prejudicial to the security of the State or the maintenance of public order. The majority held that section 3(1), read with section 3(2), uses a compendious expression covering activities that may affect one or both protected interests, so the disjunctive wording did not show vagueness or lack of application of mind. The supplied grounds were also held to fall within the statutory definition and not to be extraneous. A dissent would have required clear specification of the precise basis for detention. en-us Thu, 03 Feb 1972 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:21:24 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=274696 A detention order under section 3 of the West Bengal (Prevention of Violent Activities) Act, 1970 was upheld where it stated that detention was necessary to prevent conduct prejudicial to the security of the State or the maintenance of public order. The majority held that section 3(1), read with section 3(2), uses a compendious expression covering activities that may affect one or both protected interests, so the disjunctive wording did not show vagueness or lack of application of mind. The supplied grounds were also held to fall within the statutory definition and not to be extraneous. A dissent would have required clear specification of the precise basis for detention. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 03 Feb 1972 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=274696