SCR.A/1337/2025

NEUTRAL CITATION R/SCR.A/1337/2025 JUDGMENT DATED: 12/02/2025 2025:GUJHC:9693-DB IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/SPECIAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 1337 of 2025 FOR APPROVAL AND SIGNATURE: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ILESH J. VORA and HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK ================================================================ Approved for Reporting Yes No ================================================================ MAHENDRA@MENSHA SURESHJI PRAJAPATI THROUGH VIKASH SURESH PRAJAPATI Versus STATE OF GUJARAT & ORS. ================================================================ Appearance: MR. MH SHEKHAWAT(7194) for the Applicant(s) No. 1 MS DHWANI TRIPATHI, ADDL. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR for the Respondent(s) No. 1 ================================================================ CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ILESH J. VORA and HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK Date : 12/02/2025 ORAL JUDGMENT (PER : HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK) 1. The petitioner herein namely Mahendra @ Mensha Sureshji Prajapati came to be preventively detained vide the detention order dated 14.01.2025 passed by the Police Commissioner, Ahmedabad, as a “bootlegger” as defined