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1996 Supreme(AP) 547

M.N.RAO, S.R.NAYAK
Vanka Nagarathnamma – Appellant
Versus
Government Of A. P. , rep. by its Chief Secretary – Respondent


M. N. RAO, J.

( 1 ) AN order passed by the Commissioner of Police, Visakhapatnam, under section 3 (2) of the Andhra Pradesh Prevention of Boot Leggers, Dacoits, Drug offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and Land Grabbers Act, 1986 (for short "the Act") preventively detaining one Venka Siva Kumar, s/o Prakash Rao, resident of H. B. Colony, Visakhapatnam on the ground that he is a goonda as defined under Section 2 (g) of the Act and with a view to preventing him "from acting in any manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order", is challenged in this application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by the mother of the detenu. A copy of the grounds of detention was served on the detenu enclosing as many as ten documents referred to in the grounds. The grounds of detention mentioned four incidents: (i) on 20-2-1994 at about 8. 30 a. m. , the detenu along with his associates formed into an unlawful assembly at Adarsh Nagar, Visakhapatnam, by arming themselves with deadly weapons and committed the murder of one Pallanti Siva Kumar Ramakrishna prasad and in that connection, Cr. No. 59 /94 was registered under Sections 148, 302,307,324,109 r/ w 149 IPC; (ii) on 25-1-1996 a













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