JUDGMENT

Special Leave granted.

The appellant was detained under Section 3 of the National Security Act, 1980. The detaining authority found on subjective satisfaction, on the material placed before it, that the appellant is a desperate Goonda indulging in violent and terrorising activities at village Pisarve and its surrounding areas and that the appellant has created a reign of terror among the people in the village and the residents in the neighbourhood are apprehending danger to their lives and that they were constantly living under a shadow of fear. Thereby the public order has been affected. Instances in that regard were enumerated. Accordingly, the order of detention was passed and served it on the appellant. The grounds on which the subjective satisfaction was reached was communicated within the statutory period.

2. After the representation was rejected by the Board the appellant made a representation to the Central Government on July 6, 1991. It was received by the Central Government on July 15, 1991. The Central Government sought information from the State Government through their wireless message dated July 16, 1991. The State Government in turn sought the information from