RATNAVEL PANDIAN, J.

This petition, filed by one Vellanai Pandian is for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus for quashing the order of detention dated 10-12-1982 passed by the first respondent against the petitioners cousin P. Gandhi the detenu herein, under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and Slum Grabbers Act, 1982 (Tamil Nadu Act XIV of 1982) (hereinafter referred to as the Act) rear with the orders issued by the Government in G.O.Ms. 25. Prohibition and Excise Department dated 18-1-1982, as amended by sub-section (2) of S. 8 of the Act, and confirmed by the second respondent as per order in G.O.Ms. 58 dated 27-1-1983 by which it was directed that the detenu be kept in detention for a period of twelve months from the date of his detention.

2. The ground on which the impugned order is based is that the Inspector of Police, Prohibition Enforcement Wing, Tirunelveli, with his party, while conducting a prohibition raid at Ullar, on 24-10-1982 at about 11 a.m., found the detenu coming near a hillock known as Karuvattupparai carrying a plastic can which on a check was found to contain 15 li