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Detention orders against any boot-legger, dacoit, drug offender, goonda, immoral traffic offender or land-grabber to be made under this Act and not under National Security Act (Central Act 65 of 1980) THE ANDHRA PRADESH PREVENTION OF DANGEROUS ACTIVITIES OF BOOT-LEGGERS, DACOITS, DRUG OFFENDERES, GOONDAS, IMMORAL TRAFFIC OFFENDERS AND LAND-GRABBERS ACT, 1986 Act No. 1 of 1986 [28th February, 1986] AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR PREVENTIVE DETENTION OF BOOTLEGGERS, DACOITS, DRUG OFFENDERS, GOONDAS, IMMORAL TRAFFIC OFFENDERS AND LAND GRABBERS FOR PREVENTING THEIR DANGEROUS ACTIVITIES PREJUDICIAL TO THE MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC ORDER. Whereas public order is adversely affected every now and then by the dangerous activities of certain persons, who are known as bootleggers, dacoits, drug offenders, goondas, immoral traffic offenders and land-grabbers. And whereas having regard to the resources and influence of the persons by whom, the large scale on which, and the manner in which the dangerous activities are being clandestinely organised and carried on in violation of law by them, as bootleggers, dacoits, drug-offenders, goondas, immoral traffic offenders or land-grabbers in the State of Andhra Pradesh and particularly in its urban areas, it is necessary to have a special law in the State of Andhra Pradesh to provide for preventive detention of these six classes of persons and for matters connected therewith: Be it enacted by the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in the Thirty sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-