The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed by an accused in a cow slaughter case, upholding his detention under the National Security Act (NSA). A bench of Justices J J Munir and Sanjiv Kumar observed that the matter pertained to “public order” and not merely “law and order”. “We have carefully perused the detention order and find that the matter certainly pertains to public order and not to law and order,” the court said.