AMRIK SINGH Vs. SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT PUNJAB, DEPARTMENT OF HOME AFFAIRS & JUSTICE, HOME-III BRANCH, PUNJAB CIVIL SECRETARIAT, CHANDIGARH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS will dispose of Criminal Writ Petition No. 116 of 1994, Amrik Singh v. The Secretary to Government Punjab, and Criminal Writ Petition No. 110 of 1994, Suba Singh v. The Secretary to Government, Punjab, as common question of law and facts and involved therein.

(2.) AMRIK Singh and Suba Singh, petitioners in these writ petitions, are seeking a writ, order or direction for quashing of order of detention dated 17.2.1994 and 15.2.1994 respectively, passed by the respondent being illegal, without jurisdiction and having been made for wrongful purposes, and not a preventive, but as a punitive measure, and having been passed on vague, extraneous and irrelevant grounds, thus, rendering the same lacking in bona -fide.

(3.) THE petitions have been filed at the pre -detention stage.