JUDGMENT

FAIZAN UDDIN, J.- This writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India has been filed by the petitioner challenging the correctness and validity of the detention order dated 19-8-1994 passed by the Commissioner of Police, Shahibagh, Ahmedabad city, detaining the petitioner in exercise of the powers conferred on him under sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Gujarat Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act, 1985 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) with a view to preventing the petitioner-detenu from acting in any manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order in the area of Ahmedabad city. In pursuance of the said order the petitioner has been detained in jail, Junagarh.

2. Briefly stated the alleged activities of the detenu-petitioner as set out in the grounds of detention dated 19-8-1994 are that the petitioner was habitually indulging in criminal and anti-social activities in the area of Shahpur, Patwasheri area of Teen Darwaza and Sardar Garden area of Ahmedabad city by keeping firearms, beating and assaulting innocent citizens in public and creating an atmosphere of fear and terror in the said areas. It has been alleged that the four witnesses have st