APHC010145742026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH MONDAY, TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE CHEEKATI MANAVENDRANATH ROY THE HONOURABLE SRI WRIT PETITION NO: 7654/2026 Between: 1. SHAIK JANI BASHA,, S/O BADE SAHEB, AGED ABOUT 30 YEARS, R/O 4-63,BRAHMANAPALLI, THUMMALACHERUVU GUNTUR DISTRICT. A.P- 522437. 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, REP. SECRETARY GENERAL ADMINISTRATION (SC A.P. SECRETARIAT OFFICE, VELGAPUDI GUNTUR DISTRICT. A.P 522233 2. THE COLLECTOR AND DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, PALNADU DISTRICT. A.P-522601 3. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, PALNADU DISTRCT. 522601 4. THE INSPECTOR OF POLICE, PIDUGURALLA POLICE STATION, PALNADU DISTRCIT. A.P 5. THE SUB INSPECTOR OF POLICE, PIDUGURALLA POLICE STATION, PALNADU DISTRICT. A.P 6. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, CENTRAL PRISON, RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM. A.P IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE THIRTIETH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE CHEEKATI MANAVENDRANATH ROY THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE TUHIN KUMAR GEDELA WRIT PETITION NO: 7654/2026 SHAIK JANI BASHA,, S/O BADE SAHEB, AGED ABOUT 30 YEARS, 63,BRAHMANAPALLI, THUMMALACHERUVU GUNTUR 522437. ...PETITIONER AND THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, REP. BY ITS CHIEF SECRETARY GENERAL ADMINISTRATION (SC-1) DEPARTMENT A.P. SECRETARIAT OFFICE, VELGAPUDI GUNTUR DISTRICT. A.P THE COLLECTOR AND DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, PALNADU 522601 THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, PALNADU DISTRCT. THE INSPECTOR OF POLICE, PIDUGURALLA POLICE STATION, PALNADU DISTRCIT. A.P-522601 THE SUB INSPECTOR OF POLICE, PIDUGURALLA POLICE STATION, PALNADU DISTRICT. A.P-522601 THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, CENTRAL PRISON, RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM. A.P-533101 ...RESPONDENT(S): IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH [3558] THE THIRTIETH DAY OF MARCH THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE CHEEKATI MANAVENDRANATH ROY JUSTICE TUHIN KUMAR GEDELA SHAIK JANI BASHA,, S/O BADE SAHEB, AGED ABOUT 30 YEARS, 63,BRAHMANAPALLI, THUMMALACHERUVU GUNTUR ...PETITIONER BY ITS CHIEF 1) DEPARTMENT A.P. SECRETARIAT OFFICE, VELGAPUDI GUNTUR DISTRICT. A.P- THE COLLECTOR AND DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, PALNADU THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, PALNADU DISTRCT. A.P- THE INSPECTOR OF POLICE, PIDUGURALLA POLICE STATION, THE SUB INSPECTOR OF POLICE, PIDUGURALLA POLICE THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, CENTRAL PRISON, ...RESPONDENT(S): 2 CMR,J & GTK,J W.P.No.7654 of 2026 Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed therewith, the High Court may be pleased to Issue an appropriate Writ, Order or Direction, more particularly a Writ of Habeas Corpus, declaring the action of the Respondents in detaining the detenue without furnishing the order of detention and the grounds of detention as illegal, arbitrary. unconstitutional and violative of Articles 21 and 22(5) of the Constitution of India as well as the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Preventive Detention Act, 1970 and Consequently direct the Respondents to produce the detenue i.e., Shaik Mabu Jani, S/o Bada Shaihab, Aged about 33 years, Occ Business, R/ R/o 4-63,brahmanapalli, Thummalacheruvu, Guntur District before this Hon'ble Court and set aside the order of detention purportedly passed under the Andhra Pradesh Preventive Detention Act, 1970, and release the detenue forthwith from illegal detention from the jail of the 6th Respondent Counsel for the Petitioner: 1. RAMALAKSHMANA REDDY SANEPALLI Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. ADDL ADVOCATE GENERAL 3 CMR,J & GTK,J W.P.No.7654 of 2026 The Court made the following: ORDER: (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice Cheekati Manavendranath Roy) This writ petition for Habeas Corpus is filed on the ground that without furnishing the order of detention that the detenu has been illegally detained by the respondents. 2. Learned Government Pleader attached to the office of the learned Additional Advocate General appearing for the official respondents, on written instructions, submits that a detention order was in fact passed against the detenu by name Shaik Mabu Jani son of Bada Shaihab on 11.03.2026 and pursuant to the said order passed against him that he was taken into custody under the Preventive Detention Act. He has also placed on record the written instructions received from the Inspector of Police, Piduguralla Police Station, to that effect. It contains copy of the order of preventive detention passed against the detenu. 3. In that view of the matter, as an order of preventive detention was passed against the detenu and he has been taken into custody pursuant to the said order of preventive detention passed against him, if at all the petitioner or the detenu feels aggrieved by the same, they have to file a writ petition challenging the said order of preventive detention. 4. Therefore, this Writ Petition is disposed of, directing the petitioner to file a writ petition challenging the said order of preventive detention on any valid legal ground. There shall be no order as to costs. As a sequel, Interlocutory Applications pending, if any, shall stand closed. ________________________________________ JUSTICE CHEEKATI MANAVENDRANATH ROY _____________________________ JUSTICE TUHIN KUMAR GEDELA Date: 30.03.2026 MDP