Dilipbhai Alias Pintoo Rajybhai Mali ... vs State Of Gujarat on 31 August, 2020
6. Pertinently, the order dated 12th February, 2020, has been passed
by the District Magistrate, Vadodara that is respondent No.2 Detaining
Authority together with grounds as indicated in the communication
dated 12th February, 2020 under the provisions of sub-section (1) of
Section 9 of the Act of 1985. Clearly, the First Information Report
registered for the year 2019 is one of the grounds. Further, registration
of the four First Information Reports for the offences under the Gujarat
Prohibition Act, 1949 is also the ground which weighed with the
Detaining Authority for passing the order dated 12 th February, 2020. The
learned Assistant Government Pleader when was confronted, could not
dispute the said aspect. Moreover, the petitioner has also made the
representation dated 29th May, 2020 requesting for providing the said
documents, which undisputedly was not supplied to the petitioner. Thus,
in view of the non-supply of the documents which are very much
forming the ground of the detention, the same would be fatal to continue
detention of the petitioner any further. The principle laid down by this
Court in the case of Koli Sureshbhai Balabhai Parmar v. District
Magistrate, Bhavnagar (supra) applies on all fours to the facts of the
present case. This Court in paragraph 11 has observed thus: