https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=309064 An externment order under the Bombay Police Act can be sustained on an independently supported statutory ground even if another ground fails. For Section 56(1)(bb)(1), the relevant test is whether the person's conduct is prejudicial to public order, including acts that create enmity, hatred, or communal disharmony. The authority's subjective satisfaction will be upheld where it is based on material such as witness statements and surrounding evidence, and will be interfered with only if perverse, unsupported by evidence, or reached without due opportunity. On the facts noted, threats, intimidation, communal instigation, and disturbance of public tranquility justified the externment. en-us Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:52:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=309064 An externment order under the Bombay Police Act can be sustained on an independently supported statutory ground even if another ground fails. For Section 56(1)(bb)(1), the relevant test is whether the person's conduct is prejudicial to public order, including acts that create enmity, hatred, or communal disharmony. The authority's subjective satisfaction will be upheld where it is based on material such as witness statements and surrounding evidence, and will be interfered with only if perverse, unsupported by evidence, or reached without due opportunity. On the facts noted, threats, intimidation, communal instigation, and disturbance of public tranquility justified the externment. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=309064