Chandbee W/O Usmaan Patel vs State Of Mha. Thr. Home Dep. (Special) ... on 3 March, 2023
"3. We find from the grounds of detention that two
crimes, bearing Crime No. 451 of 2022 for an offence
punishable under Sections 65(d) of the Maharashtra
Prohibition Act, 1949 and Crime No. 265 of 2022 for an
offence punishable under Sections 65(k)(d)(f) of the
Maharashtra Prohibition Act, 1949 both registered at
Police Station Ramdas Peth, Akola were not considered to
be so serious by the Police as to warrant arrest of the
petitioner in each of these crimes. If this is so, in our view,
the learned counsel for the petitioner is right in his
submission that when a particular criminal activity of the
detenue is not considered to be so serious as to warrant his
arrest under the regular law, his detention under the law
relating to preventive detention would be wholly
unjustified. This is also the view taken by this Court and
also Co-ordinate Benches of this Court in the cases as
Vasudev Mahadev Surve Vs. The State of Maharashtra and
Another in Criminal Writ Petition No. 592 of 2021, decided
on 16.12.2021, Hanif Karim Laluwale Vs. State of
Maharashtra and others, in Criminal Writ Petition No. 75
of 2022, decided on 28.06.2022, Kasam Kalu Nimsurwale
Vs. State of Maharashtra and another, in Criminal Writ
Petition No. 269 of 2022, decided on 26.07.2022 and
Akshay Kishor Madavi Vs. State of Maharashtra and
others, in Criminal Writ Petition No. 258 of 2022, decided
on 19.08.2022.