2023:BHC-AS:23532-DB IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY varsha CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 1162 OF 2023 Siddant alias Siddharth Sanjay Marathe R/o Bldg. No.2, Pratik Nagar Opp Jaibhavani Nagar, Kothrud, Pune(at present Kolhapur Central prison, Kolhapur)

… Petitioner vs.

1. Commissioner of Police, Pune City

2. The State of Maharashtra (through Addl. Chief Secretary to Government of Maharashtra, Mantralaya, Home Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai. 3. The Superintendent, Kolhapur Central … Respondents Prison, Kolhapur.

Ms. Jayshree Tripathi, for the Petitioner.

Mrs. M.H. Mhatre, A.P.P for the State.

CORAM : REVATI MOHITE DERE &

GAURI GODSE, JJ.

DATED : 25th JULY 2023 JUDGMENT(PER: GAURI GODSE, J.)

1. This petition is filed to challenge the order of detention dated 7^th February 2023 passed by the Respondent No.1-

Commissioner of Police, Pune City, Pune, against the petitioner in the exercise of the powers under sub-section 2 of section 3 of the Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Slumlords, Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Dangerous Persons, Video Pirates, Sand Smugglers and Persons engaged in Black-

marketing Essential Commodities Act, 1981 (‘MPDA Act