N. Y. HANUMANTHAPPA, J.

( 1 ) THIS Writ Petition is filed challenging the order of detention passed by the Commissioner of Police and Additional District Magistrate, Visakhapatnam, 2nd respondent herein, by exercising the powers conferred under Section 3 (2) read with Section 2 (a) and (g) of the Andhra Pradesh Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Dacoits, Drug Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and Land Grabbers Act, 1986 (for short act 1 of 1986 ), by which the husband of the petitioner, Kandula Trinath Rao, was detained in Central Prison at Visakhapatnam, on the ground that he is involved in committing the offences of violent and goonda acts very frequently in violation of the laws of the land and doing clandestine business and creating terror in the minds of the public and that his goonda acts are affecting adversely the maintenance of public order in the area of Railway Yards, National Alluminium Company, Central Ware House Godown, Hindusthan Shipyard, Visakhapatnam Port Trust and in all the abutting areas. The said order of detention dated 26-12-1997 passed by the 2nd respondent was approved by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1st respondent her

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