SCR.A/16440/2024

NEUTRAL CITATION R/SCR.A/16440/2024 JUDGMENT DATED: 02/01/2025 2025:GUJHC:504-DB IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/SPECIAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 16440 of 2024 FOR APPROVAL AND SIGNATURE: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ILESH J. VORA and HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK ========================================================== Approved for Reporting Yes No ========================================================== MAHENDRA @ SOMKU GABRUBHAI BHAGAT KATHI DARBAR THRO BHAGAR GABHARUBHAI JILUBHAI Versus STATE OF GUJARAT & ORS. ========================================================== Appearance: MR HIRENKUMAR M NIYALCHANDANI(9959) for the Applicant(s) No. 1 MR JAY MEHTA, APP for the Respondent(s) No. 1 ========================================================== CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ILESH J. VORA and HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK Date : 02/01/2025 ORAL JUDGMENT (PER : HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ILESH J. VORA) 1. The petitioner herein namely Mahendra @ Somku Gabrubhai Bhagat Kathi Darbar came to be preventively detained vide the detention order dated 04.12.2024 passed by the Police Commissioner, Rajkot, as a bootlegger as defined under Section 2(b) of the