JUDGMENT :

A.Y. Kogje, J.

1. This petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is filed for following relief:-

“A) YOUR LORDSHIPS may be pleased to issue writ or any other appropriate writ, order or direction and be pleased to quash and set aside the order of detention order vide PCB/DTN/PASA No.539/2023 dated 04/10/2023 passed by the Respondent No.2 under the provision of Gujarat Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act, 1985 as being illegal, invalid, null and void, arbitrary, suffers from total non-application of mind and violative of Article 14, 21 and 22 of the Constitution of India.”

2. Thus, essentially, the challenge is to the order of detention dated 04.10.2023 passed by the Police Commissioner, Ahmedabad, respondent No.2 herein, by which the petitioner has been detained as a “dangerous person” based on two offences registered against him, details of which are as under:-

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