Reasons To Believe

Reasons to believe, a belief can be said to be founded on reasonable grounds only if there is something tangible to go by on the basis of which it can be said that the applicant's apprehension that he may be arrested is genuine. But specific events and facts must be disclosed by the applicant in order to enable the court to judge of the reasonableness of his belief, the existence of which is the sine qua non of the exercise of power conferred by the section, Shri Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia v. State of Punjab, AIR 1980 SC 1632: (1980) 2 SCC 565: (1980) 3 SCR 383.