It Is For State To Assess, Review Threat Perception: Supreme Court Dismisses Plea For Withdrawal Of 'Z+' Security To Mukesh Ambani & Family
Live LawDismissing a plea seeking withdrawal of security cover to Reliance Industries' Mukesh Ambani and his family members, the Supreme Court on Tuesday, nevertheless, observed that "it is for the State to assess and review the threat perception of individual on case to case basis". The bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and M. R. Shah were hearing a SLP against the December, 2019 decision of the Bombay High Court, where it was held that that the Commissioner of Police, Mumbai and other respondents "have no option but to ensure that the highest level Z+ security is provided to these private respondents", "irrespective of whether any individual or any authority is convinced about the existence or otherwise of real threat to their life or liberty", particularly when they are "willing to bear the entire cost for said security to protect their lives in view of their own grave threat perceptions". Noting that the Supreme Court in the 2015 Biswanath's case had held that if the police is satisfied about the existence of threat to the life and security of citizens, they shall be provided free security, the division bench of the High Court, in the impugned judgment, had went to the extent of stating that "Irrespective of the satisfaction of the police, the citizen can claim protection based on his own threat perception by paying cost for the same. "Once threat from terrorist organisation has been found by the the Respondent State and already as noted above in the said earlier judgment of the co-ordinate bench considering existence of such treat perception and likely cascading effect thereof, private respondent's family members to have security protection of the highest category to protect their life and limb cannot be alleged as lacking in substance", it said.
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