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PETITIONER:

PIYUSH KANTILAL MEHTA

Vs.

RESPONDENT:

COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, AHMEDABAD CITY AND ANOTHER

DATE OF JUDGMENT16/12/1988

BENCH:

DUTT, M.M. (J)

BENCH:

DUTT, M.M. (J)

NATRAJAN, S. (J)

CITATION:

1989 AIR 491 1988 SCR Supl. (3)1081

1989 SCC Supl. (1) 322 JT 1988 (4) 703

1988 SCALE (2)1583

CITATOR INFO :

APL 1989 SC1703 (20)

F 1990 SC 496 (3 TO 7,10,11)

RF 1992 SC 979 (15,16,21)

ACT:

Gujarat Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act, 1985-

Sections 2 and 3- Detention Order- Validity of- Merely

because a person is a bootlegger he cannot be preventively

detained- Activities should effect adversely maintenance of

public order.

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Constitution of India, 1950- Article 32- Detention

Order- Assailment of- Permissible by writ petition even

though representation of detenu pending before Advisory

Board.

HEADNOTE:

The petitioner filed a writ petition challenging the

legality of the order of his detention passed by the

respondent under sub-section (2) of Section 3 of the Gujarat

Prevention of Anti-Social Activities, Act, 1985