JUDGMENT

D.P.MOHAPATRA, J.

(1) LEAVE granted.

(2) WE have heard learned counsel for the parties.

(3) IN this appeal filed on behalf of the detenu Pandit Kishan Fulore, the judgment of the Bombay High Court dismissing criminal writ petition no. 1763 of 2000 is under challenge. In the said writ petition, the order of detention passed by the commissioner of police, Thane, against the detenu under section 3 of the Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Slumlords, Bootleggers, Drug Offenders and Dangerous Persons Act, 1981 (No. LV of 1981) (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") was challenged.

(4) FROM the discussions in the judgment of the High Court it appears that the detention order was challenged on the grounds that due to the delay in passing the order of detention by the authority the nexus between the activities allegedly committed by the detenu and the necessity for passing the order of preventive detention was lost; that the in-camera statements recorded by the subordinate officials were accepted by the competent authority without verifying the truth or otherwise. The High Court on perusal of the pleadings and on considerati