20-year-old Karan Ramesh Ghuge filed a petition challenging an order dated 24th December, 2012 passed under Section 57(1)(a)(i) of the Bombay Police Act by the Deputy Commissioner of Police externing him from the limits of Nashik City and Nashik Rural for a period of two years. This order was confirmed by the appellate authority on March 22, 2013.
The prosecutor, however, argued that reasonable opportunity had been afforded to the petitioner to meet the case against him and that the show-cause notice issued to him disclosed in sufficient details, the allegations against him.
The prosecutor said the petitioner's activities were found to be prejudicial to the peace and harmony of the society and that there was a reasonable apprehension that he would again engage himself in perpetrating violent acts against the peace loving members of the society.
The court noted that these crime numbers as well the general nature of the allegations levelled against the petitioner by these two witnesses did find a mention in the show-cause notice, but, what was lacking in the notice was something which went to the root of the whole matter.