GURDEV SINGH
Krishan Murari – Appellant
Versus
State Of Punjab – Respondent
1. This order will dispose of two petitions under S. 561-A of the Criminal Procedure Code for quashing proceedings under Ss. 107/151 of the Criminal Procedure Code pending against the petitioners in the Court of Shri Jogindar Pal Puri, Magistrate First Class (Executive), Ludhiana against the petitioners. It is contended that even on the allegations contained in the report on which the security proceedings were started against the petitioners no case for taking action under S. 107 of the Criminal Procedure Code was made out, that if there was any danger of breach of peace that was momentary and it ceased to exist on the day the report was lodged, and that the proceedings against the petitioners had been instituted merely to harass them and with the interior purpose of punishing them for their alleged support of the strike to which the students of the Agricultural University, Ludhiana, had resorted as far back as January, 1965.
2. On reference to the record I find that on 14th January, 1965, the Dean of the College of Agriculture, Ludhiana, addressed a letter to the Station House Officer, Sadar Police Station, Ludhiana, complaining that a group of students, who had been on st
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