JUDGMENT

S. RATNAVEL PANDIAN, J.:— The above three writ petitions under Art. 32 of the Constitution of India, filed by three different petitioners/ detenus are heard together and disposed of by this common judgment as common contentions are raised challenging the validity of the impugned orders of detention dated 16-9-1988.

2. The detention orders in the above cases were passed by the Commissioner of Police. Ahmedabad, the first respondent herein, in exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (i) of Section 3 of the Gujarat .Prevention of Anti-social Activities Act, 1985 hereinafter referred to as the Act with of a view to preventing the petitioners/detenus from acting in any manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order in the area of Ahmedabad city. All the grounds of detention which are similar except the reference of the cases registered against each of the petitioners spell out that the detaining authority has reached his subjective satisfaction on the materials placed before him that all the petitioners are dangerous persons within the ambit of Section 2(c). At the end of each of the grounds of detention, it is specifically averred that "the copies of the papers sh