Repeated Saying Of Word ‘Goonda’ Or ‘Prejudicial To Maintenance Of Public Order’ Insufficient To Invoke Preventive Detention: SC [Read Judgment]

Rhetorical incantation of word “goonda” or “prejudicial to maintenance of public order” cannot be sufficient justification to invoke the draconian powers of preventive detention, the Supreme Court has held in , .A bench comprising Justice L Nageswara Rao and Justice Navin Sinha quashed preventive detention of a man who was accused of selling spurious chilli seeds to farmers.The...