New Delhi: The Karnataka high court has quashed a detention order under the Goondas Act and imposed Rs 25,000 penalty on the state government and Bengaluru Police Commissioner for filing affidavits in a casual manner in the case, Bar and Bench reported.Observing this as a case of violation of personal liberty, where the detenu has been in detention since December 14 last year, the court directed the state and the police to submit the amount within 30 days.“Though Rs 25,000 is a meagre amount, as it is a case of violation of personal liberty, however, keeping in view the totality of the facts and circumstances of the case, the cost is confined to Rs 25,000 and the same be paid to the petitioner-detenu within a period of 30 days from today,” the bench of acting Chief Justice Satish Chanda Sharma and Justice S.S. Magadum said.Also read: Explainer: Why the Allahabad HC Quashed Charges Against Dr Kafeel KhanThe petitioner Karthik had challenged three orders of detention under the Karnataka Goondas Act, 1985 issued by the Bengaluru Police Commissioner, which was later reaffirmed by the state government. He noted in his petition that despite submitting a representation on January 12, 2021, it was never looked into by the advisory board which comes under the Act nor by the state government at any point of time.According to the report, a police inspector had filed an additional statement of objections, which stated that no details of representations have been furnished by the petitioner.Calling the move “strange”, the court pulled up the state government and the police commissioner for not considering the representation made by the petitioner.Quashing the detention orders, the court said, “In the light of the aforesaid judgment, as the representation was not considered either by the advisory board or by the state government and as we are dealing with the right of personal liberty, the order of detention deserves to be quashed.”