SANJAYBHAI VALLABHBHAI PATEL Vs. DISTRICT MAGISTRATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PERUSED the petition, materials supplied to the detenu, detention order and heard learned advocate MrMirza for the petitioner and learned AGP MrBhatt for the respondentState

(2.) THIS petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is directed against the order of detention dated 4122013 passed by the respondent authority in exercise of powers conferred under Section 3(2) of the Gujarat Prevention of Anti Social Activities Act, 1985 (for short the Act) by detaining the detenue as a "bootlegger" as defined under Section 2(b) of the Act

(3.) LEARNED advocate for the detenue submits that order of detention impugned in this petition deserves to be quashed and set aside on the ground that three offences registered against the detenu before the concerned police station vide III CR No299/2013, 166/2013, and 1080/2011 for the offences punishable under Sections 66(1)(b), 65(a) (e), 116(2), and 81 of Prohibition Act respectively are not of such magnitude and intensity as to have the effect of disturbing the public order so as to pass an order under Section 3(1) of the PASA Act Learned advocate for the petitioner has further submitted that the detaining authority has not applied its mind to the vital facts and there was nonapplication of mind before recording the order of detention