https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=293216 Externment under Section 57(1) of the Bombay Police Act is a preventive power that can be used only on a fair and informed application of mind. The authority must consider more than prior convictions and must assess whether the person's conduct has made him a real menace to public order or public interest, and whether removal is a reasonable and proportionate restraint within Article 19(5). On the record described, the order failed because it treated the matter as one of drinking convictions and did not address the larger public-order requirement; later justifications could not cure that defect, so the externment order was unsustainable. en-us Thu, 20 Apr 1972 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 10:52:38 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=293216 Externment under Section 57(1) of the Bombay Police Act is a preventive power that can be used only on a fair and informed application of mind. The authority must consider more than prior convictions and must assess whether the person's conduct has made him a real menace to public order or public interest, and whether removal is a reasonable and proportionate restraint within Article 19(5). On the record described, the order failed because it treated the matter as one of drinking convictions and did not address the larger public-order requirement; later justifications could not cure that defect, so the externment order was unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 20 Apr 1972 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=293216