2024 INSC 968
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REPORTABLE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. OF 2024
(Arising out of SLP (Crl.) No.12516 of 2024) ARJUN S/O RATAN GAIKWAD …APPELLANT(S)
VERSUS THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS …RESPONDENT(S)
J U D G M E N T
B.R. GAVAI, J. 1. Leave granted.
2. The appeal is taken up for hearing.
3. This appeal challenges the judgment and order dated
20th August 2024 passed by the Division Bench of the High
Court of Judicature at Bombay, Bench at Aurangabad in
Criminal Writ Petition No. 698 of 2024, thereby dismissing
the petition filed by the appellant herein.
4. Shorn of details, the facts leading to the present appeal
are as under:
4.1 The District Magistrate, Parbhani passed an order
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under Section 3(2) of the The Maharashtra Prevention of
Dangerous Activities of Slumlords, Bootleggers, Drug-
Offenders, Dangerous Persons, Video Pirates, Sand
Smugglers and Persons Engaged in Black-Marketing of
Essential Commodities Act, 1981 (hereinafter referred to as
‘MPDA Act’) and thereby detaining the appellant for a period
of twelve months, so as to prevent him from indulging in the
activities of bootlegging thereby preventing the maintenance
of peace.
4.2 The detaining authority had basically relied on the six
cases registered against the appellant by the State Excise
Department. The grounds of detentio...