(1.) Leave granted.
(2.) This appeal is at the instance of a detenu, preventively detained under Sec. 3(2) of the Andhra Pradesh Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Boot-leggers, Dacoits, Drug Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and Land Grabbers Act, 1986 (1 of 1986) (for short, the Act 1986) and is directed against the order passed by a Division Bench of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh dtd. 7/3/2023 in Writ Petition No. 33638 of 2022 filed by the appellant herein by which the Division Bench rejected the writ petition and thereby declined to interfere with the order of preventive detention passed by the District Collector, Kakinada District, Andhra Pradesh dtd. 25/8/2022 in exercise of his powers under Sec. 3(2) of the Act 1986.
(3.) The order of detention dtd. 25/8/2022 passed by the respondent No. 2 reads thus :-