Supreme Court of India

Piyush Kantilal Mehta v. Commissioner of Police, Ahmedabad City and Another

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Reported as [1988] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 1081

Bench M.M. Dutt J.

Decided 16 December 1988

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons aforesaid, we allow the writ petition and quash the impugned order of detention and direct that the petitioner be released forthwith.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

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-Activiiies should effect adversely maintenance of public order. Constitution of India, 1950-Article 32-Detention Order Assai/ment of-Permissible by writ petition even though representation of detenu pending before Advisory Board. c The petitioner filed a writ petition cha'itenging the legality of the order of his detention passed by the respondent nnrler sub-section (2) of Section 3 of the Gujarat Prevention of

Authorities it was built on

1968 Pushkar Mukherjee & Ors. v. The State of West Bengal cited by 14
1973 Prabhu Dayal Deorah Etc. Etc. v. The District Magistrate, Kamrup & Ors. cited by 12

Where later benches applied it

2023 Pesala Nookaraju v. The Government of Andhra Pradesh & Ors referred to
2022 Shraddha Gupta v. The State of Uttar Pradesh and Others referred to
2026 Union of India through its Secretary v. Sgt Girish Kumar and Ors. mentioned
1995 Sh. Mustakmiya Jabbarmiya Shaikh v. Sh. M.M. Mehta, Commissioner of Police and Ors. mentioned

Of those, 2 referred to · 2 mentioned

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