VIGILANCE MANUAL VOLUME III - AP Online

DECISION - 240
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Security of the State cannot be confined to an armed rebellion or
revolt for there are various ways in which the security of the State
can be affected such as by state secrets or information relating to
defence production or similar matters being passed on to other
countries whether inimical or not to India, or by secret links with
terrorists. The way in which the security of the State is affected
may be either open or clandestine. Disaffection in any armed
force or paramilitary force or police force is likely to spread because
dissatisfied and disaffected members of such a Force spread
dissatisfaction among other members of the force and thus induce
them not to discharge their duties properly and to commit acts of
indiscipline, insubordination or disobedience to the orders of their
superiors. Such a situation cannot be a matter affecting only law
and order or public order but is a matter vitally affecting the security
of the State. The interest of the security of the State can be affected
by actual or even by the likelihood of such acts taking place. In an
inquiry into acts affecting the interest of the security of the State,
several matters not fit or proper to be made public, including the
source of information involving a civil servant in such acts, would
be disclosed and thus in such cases an inquiry into acts prejudicial
to the interest of the security of the State would as much prejudice
the interest of the security of the State as those acts themselves
would. The condition for the application of clause (c) of the second
proviso to Art, 311(2) is the satisfaction of the President or the
Governor, as the case may be, that it is not expedient in the interest
of the security of the State to hold a disciplinary inquiry. Such
satisfaction is not required to be that of the President or the
Governor personally but of the President or the Governor as the
case may be, acting in the constitutional sense.
Members of Madhya Pradesh District Police Force and
Madhya Pradesh Special Armed Force are involved. Members of
these two forces, in order to obtain the release on bail of two of
their colleagues involved in an incident in the annual mela at
Gwalior in which one