1952 (5) TMI 12 - SUPREME COURT

Detention orders - Held that:- The grounds of detention must be regarded as a whole and when that is done the relevance of the first ground becomes plain. Gravamen of the charge against the petitioner is that he aimed at setting up a parallel government in the Uran Peta area and that in order to achieve that end he did various acts such as intimidating the workers in the salt pans with threats of murder, and his own workers with threats of death, unless they carried out his orders; and among the lesser instances given to illustrate the exercise of parallel governmental authority are the ones set out in the first ground, namely the infliction of fines with the sanction of excommunication and boycott to ensure their payment and due obedience to his orders. This point has no force and is decided against the petitioner. It will not be open to him to re-agitate this afresh when his case is reheard on the remaining issues.

All the four cases will now be set down for hearing on the remaining points which arise in them.