( 1 ) BY way of this Special Civil Application under Art. 226 of the Constitution, the petitioner has challenged the order of detention dated 5-11- 1996. The subjective satisfaction of the Police Commissioner, Ahmedabad, who directed the detention, is based upon two criminal adventures of the petitioner dated march 10, 1995 and May 20, 1995, and two unregistered incidents of 2-10-1996 and 10-10-1996.

( 2 ) THE petitioner-detenu claims to be a reputed business man carrying on the business of building constructions in the city of Ahmedabad. The petitioner says that he is a strong party worker of Bharatiya Janata Party and a very strong supporter of Shri Keshubhai Patel, a former Chief Minister of Gujarat State. He further says that the day Shri Keshubhai Patel became the Chief Minister, the petitioner was pinching like a throne in the body of respondent No. 3, viz. , Shri Shankersinh vaghela, now the Chief Minister of Gujarat. Immediately after the respondent No. 3 was sworn as the Chief Minister of State of Gujarat on October 23, 1996, the machinery of the State Government has been in motion to harass the petitioner. The impugned order of detention was passed by resp