https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=73712 Preventive detention cannot be sustained where the detenu is supplied illegible or blank copies of relied-upon documents, because such defective disclosure denies a meaningful opportunity to challenge the detention grounds and violates the right to make an effective representation. The detention here rested on alleged unauthorised foreign exchange activity and passport entries said to show repeated travel abroad, but the xerox copy supplied was unreadable in material parts. As the detenu disputed the number of visits and the basis of the authority's conclusion, the illegibility of the passport copy disabled an effective rebuttal. The detention order was therefore unsustainable. en-us Wed, 15 Jun 1988 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:06:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=73712 Preventive detention cannot be sustained where the detenu is supplied illegible or blank copies of relied-upon documents, because such defective disclosure denies a meaningful opportunity to challenge the detention grounds and violates the right to make an effective representation. The detention here rested on alleged unauthorised foreign exchange activity and passport entries said to show repeated travel abroad, but the xerox copy supplied was unreadable in material parts. As the detenu disputed the number of visits and the basis of the authority's conclusion, the illegibility of the passport copy disabled an effective rebuttal. The detention order was therefore unsustainable. Case-Laws FEMA Wed, 15 Jun 1988 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=73712