Order of Commissioner of Police, Greater Bombay under Section (2) (1) (a) of the Bombay Public Security Measures Act, 1947. Served as Defence Exhibit D/102 in Mahatma Gandhi Murder Case. The order is reproduced verbatim from Printed Record of Mahatma Gandhi Murder Case Volume V
ORDER NO. 1202 OF 1948
WHEREAS the Government of Bombay has directed by its order in the Home Department, No. S.D. 671, dated the 26th April, 1947, that the powers conferred on it by clause (a) of subsection (1) of Section 2 of the Bombay Public Security Measures Act, 1947 (Bom. VI of 1947), shall also be exercised by the Commissioner of Police, Greater Bombay, AND WHEREAS, I, JEHANGIR SOHRAB BHARUCHA, I.P., Commissioner of Police, Greater Bombay, am satisfied that the person known as Mr. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Bar.-at-Law, is acting in a manner prejudicial to the public safety and the peace of Greater Bombay.
NOW< THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (a) of subsection (1) of Section 2 of the said Act, I hereby direct that the said Mr. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Bar.-at-Law, be detained.
(Sd). Illegible,
Commissioner of Police,
Greater Bombay.
Dated at Bombay on the 5th day of February, 1948