(1) The Government may, if satisfied with respect to any person that with a view to preventing him from acting in any manner prejudicial to-
(i) the security of the State or the maintenance of public order;
or
(ii) the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the community,
1. The Andhra Pradesh Preventive Detention Act, 1970 received the assent of the Governor on the 5th March, 1970. The said Act in force in the combined State, as on 02.06.2014, has been adapted to the State of Telangana, under section 101 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 (Central Act 6 of 2014) vide. the Telangana Adaptation of Laws Order, 2016, issued in G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated
01.06.2016.
2. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016.
Short title, extent and commencement.
Definitions.
Power to make orders detaining certain persons.
2 [Act No.1 of 1970] it is necessary so to do, make an order directing that such person be detained.
(2) Any of the following officers, namely:-
(a) District Magistrates;
(b) Additional District Magistrates specially empowered in this behalf by the Government;
(c) the Commissioner of City Police, Hyderabad;
may, if satisfied as provided in sub-section (1), exercise the power conferred by the said sub-section.
(3) When an order is made under this section by an officer mentioned in sub-section (2), he shall forthwith report the fact to the Government together with the grounds on which the order has been made and such other particulars as in his option have a baring on the matter, and no such order shall remain in force for more than twelve days after the making thereof unless in the meantime it has been approved by the Government.
4. A detention order may be executed in the manner provided for the execution of warrants of arrest under 3the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898.
5. Every person in respect of whom a detention order has been made shall be liable-
(a) to be detained in such place and under such conditions, including conditions as to maintenance,
3. See now the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974).
Execution of detention orders.
Central Act V of 1898.
Power to regulate place and conditions of detention.
[Act No. 1 of 1970] 3 discipline and punishment for breaches of discipline, as the Government may, by general or special order, specify; and
(b) to be removed from one place of detention to another place of detention in the State.
6. No detention order shall be invalid or inoperative merely by reason-
(a) that one or more of the grounds on which the order is made is or are vague or irrelevant, when the other ground or grounds does not or do not suffer from any such infirmity;
(b) that the person to be detained thereunder is outside the limits of the territorial jurisdiction of the officer making the order; or
(c) that the place of detention of such person is outside the said limits.