ORDER

Ujagar Singh, J.- The petitioner has challenged the detention order dated 8.1.1987 (Annexure PI) passed by the District Magistrate, Faridkot, stating that to prevent the petitioner from acting in a manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order and security of the state, it was necessary to detain him and he was required to be arrested and detained in District Jail, Faridkot.

2. The said order was approved by the Governor of Punjab on 16.1.1987. The grounds of detention were only two

(1) That on. 14.5.1996, Sub Inspector Sher Singh recovered from personal search of the petitioner one country made pistol 12 bore and 2 live cartridges from the right Dab of his Pajama, in the area of village Badhni Kalan, near Gurdwara Bhiana Sahib in presence of some other police employees and a case was registered vide First Information Report No. 64 dated 14.5.86 under Section 25 of the Arms Act, Police station Badhni Kalan and that on 1. 10.86 at 7 p.m. the petitioner addressed a gathering in Gurdwara Rao Kalan on the Gurdwara loudspeaker to the effect that in order to topple the Barnala Govt. and for creating terror among the people in general and police officers in particular they