ATAUR RAHEMAN @ ATTO SAKIRBHAI MEMON THRO SAHIL MOHAMMAD DAKIRBHAI MEMON vs STATE OF GUJARAT Advocate - PUBLIC PROSECUTOR( — SCR.A/4898/2026

Summary The Gujarat High Court quashed a preventive detention order issued against the petitioner under the Gujarat Prevention of Anti-social Activities Act, 1985. The court held that while the petitioner's involvement in three criminal cases (bootlegging and assault) was acknowledged, these offences constituted mere disturbances of law and order affecting specific individuals, not public order affecting the community at large. The court ruled that the detaining authority failed to substantiate how the petitioner's activities threatened public order maintenance, and therefore the subjective satisfaction for detention was invalid. The petitioner was directed to be released immediately. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.