The Orissa High Court has quashed the order of preventive detention under the National Security Act (NSA) of dreaded criminal Sk Mabud of Baleswar district, which was approved by the State Government in February this year.
A Division Bench of Justices Kumari Sanju Panda and SK Panigrahi has allowed a petition of Mabud alias Sk Mamud, holding the order of detention approved by the Government.
The court observed that preventive detention is not to punish a person for something (wrong) he has done but to prevent him from doing it (wrong).
“Since the detention order passed on the allegation of involvement of the detenue in a number of criminal cases without any material that there is likelihood of breach of public order, the detention order cannot be sustained,” the court said.