Reputation

Meaning.

Word "Reputation"-Meaning. It is obvious that "reputation" does not mean "suspicion" or rumours and there must be necessity evidence, which discloses the collective information of those persons in whose midst a person resides before it can be said that there is evidence in proof of general reputation. It was, therefore, necessary even in relation to reputation, assuming without holding that mere general reputation can also become a ground for initiating proceedings under the said Act that the report disclosed a general reputation which would have justified initiation of proceedings against the detenu. [Words and phrases].