‘Serious threat to public health': Telangana HC upholds preventive detention of bootlegger
HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court upheld the state govt's decision to detain a habitual bootlegger under the PD Act, observing that the manufacture and sale of illicitly distilled liquor can have irreversible and dangerous consequences for society.
A division bench comprising Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya and Justice BR Madhusudhan Rao made these remarks while dismissing a petition filed by a Warangal woman challenging her husband's preventive detention.
The bench said that the man's repeated involvement in bootlegging posed a serious threat to public health and safety, thereby warranting detention under section 2(A) of the PD Act, 1986. "His actions endangered the health of the public and created a sense of fear and insecurity," the court said in its judgment.
The court further observed that the sale of spurious liquor goes beyond mere law and order concerns and directly undermines public health and societal stability. In arriving at its decision, the bench cited the Supreme Court's ruling in Pesala Nookaraju versus govt of AP (2023), which upheld preventive detention in similar cases involving habitual bootleggers.
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