HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court has endorsed the decision of the state police in issuing detention orders under the PD Act against habitual offenders involved in cheating innocent, unemployed youth under the pretext of providing them employment in SBI, Railways and Income-Tax departments and for collecting huge amounts, issuing fake appointment letters to them and thus cheating them in an organised manner.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan and Justice A. Rajashekar Reddy while dealing with a Habeas Corpus petition challenging the detention of one Pranay Rahul who has been booked in six FIRs in the Hyderabad city limits for the charges of cheating innocent unemployed youth and other white-collar offences.
The bench was not inclined to interfere with the order of detention issued by the Hyderabad city police commissioner by citing the Supreme Court observation “the essential concept of preventive detention is that the detention of a person is not to punish him for something he has done but to prevent him from doing it.
The basis of detention is the satisfaction of the executive of a reasonable probability of the likelihood of the detenue acting in a manner similar to his past acts and preventing him by detention from doing the same”.
The court agreed with the police contention that there was a compelling necessity to detain the detenue in order to prevent him indulging in such activities in future which are prejudicial to the maintenance of public order as he was involved in several white-collar offences.
