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1956 (9) TMI 56 - SC - Indian LawsForthwith within the meaning of section 3(3) of the Preventive Detention Act IV of 1950 - Preventive Detention - Delay - Held that:- It is obvious that the Commissioner was not sleeping over the orders which he had passed or lounging supinely over them. The delay such as it is due, to causes not of his making, but to causes to which the activities of the petitioners very largely contributed. We have no hesitation in accepting the affidavit, and we bold that the delay in sending the report could not have been avoided by the Commissioner and that when they were sent by him, they were sent "forthwith" within the meaning of section 3(3) of the Act. What a person is likely to do in future can only be a matter of inference from various circumstances, and his past record will be valuable, and often the only, record on which it could be made. It was finally contended that what was alleged against the petitioners was only that they advocated hartal, and that was not a ground for making an order of detention. But the charge in these cases was that the petitioners instigated hartal bringing about a complete stoppage of work, business and transport with a view to promote lawlessness and disorder, and that is a ground on which an order could be made under section 3(2). All the contentions urged by the petitioners therefore fail, and these petitions must be dismissed
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