The Karnataka Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug-Offenders, Gamblers, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders, Slum-Grabbers and Video or Audio Pirates Act, 1985
The Karnataka Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug-Offenders, Gamblers, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders, Slum-Grabbers and Video or Audio Pirates Act, 1985
This Act is a preventive detention law enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature. It empowers the State Government, District Magistrates, or Commissioners of Police to detain individuals classified as "dangerous persons"—specifically bootleggers, drug-offenders, gamblers, goondas, immoral traffic offenders, slum-grabbers, and video/audio pirates—if their activities threaten public order. Unlike punitive criminal law, which punishes past crimes, this Act focuses on preventing future harm. It establishes strict procedural safeguards, including the mandatory constitution of an Advisory Board to review detention orders, ensuring that the state's power to restrict liberty is exercised with oversight and within defined statutory timelines.
- 0. Preamble
- 1. Short title and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Power to make orders detaining certain persons
- 4. Execution of detention orders
- 5. Power to regulate place and conditions of detention
- 6. Detention orders not to be invalid or inoperative on certain grounds
- 7. Powers in relation to absconding persons
- 8. Grounds of order of detention to be disclosed to persons affected by the order
- 9. Constitution of Advisory Board
- 10. Reference to Advisory Board
- 11. Procedure of Advisory Board
- 12. Action upon report of Advisory Board
- 13. Maximum period of detention
- 14. Revocation of detention orders
- 15. Temporary release of persons detained
- 16. Protection of action taken in good faith
- 17. Detention Order against any bootlegger, drug-offender, gambler, goonda,
- 18. Repeal and savings
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