RAVINDRA Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard learned advocates for the respective parties through video conferencing. 1. Rule. Learned AGP waives service of notice of rule on behalf of the respondent State.

(2.) The present petition is directed against order of detention dated 30.11.2019 passed by the respondent - detaining authority in exercise of powers conferred under section 3 of the Gujarat Prevention of Anti Social Activities Act, 1985 (for short "the Act") by detaining the petitioner - detenue as defined under section 2(c) of the Act.

(3.) Learned advocate for the detenue submits that the order of detention impugned in this petition deserves to be quashed and set aside on the ground that the registration of two FIRs being (i) CR. No.-I- 17 of 2017 registered at Sabarmati Police Station on 06.03.2017 for the offence punishable under Sections 143 , 147 , 149 , 323 , 324 , 337 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 135(1) of the Gujarat Police Act (ii) CR. No.-I-148 of 2019 registered at Sabarmati Police Station on 05.10.2019 for the offence punishable under Sections 307 , 333 , 353 , 354 , 332 , 186 , 298(b), 506(2), 323, 224, 225, 143, 147, 148, 149, 34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 135(1) of the Gujarat Police Act by itself cannot bring the case of the detenue within the purview of definition under section 2(c) of the Act. Further, learned advocate for the detenue submits that illegal activity likely to be carried out or alleged to have been carried out, as alleged, cannot have any nexus or bearing with the maintenance of public order and at the most, it can be said to be breach of law and order. Learned advocate for the petitioner further submits that it is not possible to hold on the basis of the facts of the present case that activity of the detenue with respect to the criminal cases had affected even tempo of the society causing threat to the very existence of normal and routine life of people at large or that on the basis of criminal cases, the detenue had put the entire social apparatus in disorder, making it difficult for whole system to exist as a system governed by rule of law by disturbing public order.