( 1 ) HABEAS corpus writ petition at hand was filed by Israr Ahmad before this Court challenging his detention under Section 3 (3) of the National Security Act (hereinafter referred to as nsa) dated 10-1-2002.

( 2 ) THE brief facts of the case are that a F. I. R. came to be registered at P. S. Kotwali, District Muzaffarnagar, against the present petitioner vide Crime No. 1182 of 2001 under Sections 3/5/8 of the U. P. Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act. On an information received from the informer the godown of the petitioner was raided by the police of P. S. Kotwali at 4. 00 p. m. on 28-12-2001. On a search of the godown 10 quintals of meat belonging to the family of cow was recovered from there. Weighing machine having cows meat on one of its pangs was also found. The charge, therefore, was that he collected in large quantity cows meat for being transported to other States. On coming to know of this huge recovery in the region of P. S. Kotwali social disharmony and anger between different communities was spread. There was tension between different religious communities. Religious harmony between them was disrupted. Fear and terror gripped the area as a consequence o