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Issues: (i) Whether the preventive detention order was vitiated because the detaining authority relied upon, as part of the basic material, grounds that had formed the basis of an earlier detention order which had already been quashed. (ii) Whether the detention order was invalid for non-application of mind because the sponsoring authority withheld the material fact that the detenu had been acquitted in one of the relied-upon criminal cases before the order was passed.
Issue (i): Whether the preventive detention order was vitiated because the detaining authority relied upon, as part of the basic material, grounds that had formed the basis of an earlier detention order which had already been quashed.
Analysis: The grounds of detention showed that two of the criminal cases relied upon in the impugned order were the same cases that had constituted part of the basic material for the earlier detention order. The reference to those cases could not be treated as a mere recital of antecedents, because the language of the grounds and the satisfaction recorded by the detaining authority demonstrated that they were used as substantive material for the subjective satisfaction. Once the earlier order had been quashed, reliance on those very grounds attracted the rule against detention founded on stale or previously invalidated material.
Conclusion: The detention order was vitiated on this ground and was liable to be quashed.
Issue (ii): Whether the detention order was invalid for non-application of mind because the sponsoring authority withheld the material fact that the detenu had been acquitted in one of the relied-upon criminal cases before the order was passed.
Analysis: One of the criminal cases referred to in the grounds was shown as pending, whereas the detenu had already been acquitted before the impugned order was made. That fact was material to the detaining authority's decision whether preventive detention was necessary. Suppression of such a vital fact prevented proper application of mind to relevant material and undermined the validity of the detention order.
Conclusion: The detention order was invalid for non-application of mind on account of suppression of a material fact.
Final Conclusion: The preventive detention order could not be sustained, as it rested on invalid reliance upon earlier quashed material and on a materially incomplete factual basis, and the detenu was entitled to release.
Ratio Decidendi: Preventive detention is vitiated where the detaining authority relies on material that formed the basis of an earlier quashed order or where a material fact such as a prior acquittal is suppressed, because in either situation the subjective satisfaction is tainted by non-application of mind.
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