https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=159517 Unexplained delay in executing a preventive detention order can vitiate detention where it casts doubt on the genuineness of the detaining authority's subjective satisfaction and breaks the live-link between the prejudicial activity and the need for detention. Here, the absence of any acceptable explanation for about three months' delay in securing arrest undermined the detention. Likewise, a detenu's representation must be considered with reasonable dispatch under Article 22(5); an unexplained 72-day delay in dealing with the representation was found incompatible with that constitutional safeguard. Because both delays were unjustified, the detention order could not survive judicial scrutiny. en-us Wed, 23 Aug 1989 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:31:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=159517 Unexplained delay in executing a preventive detention order can vitiate detention where it casts doubt on the genuineness of the detaining authority's subjective satisfaction and breaks the live-link between the prejudicial activity and the need for detention. Here, the absence of any acceptable explanation for about three months' delay in securing arrest undermined the detention. Likewise, a detenu's representation must be considered with reasonable dispatch under Article 22(5); an unexplained 72-day delay in dealing with the representation was found incompatible with that constitutional safeguard. Because both delays were unjustified, the detention order could not survive judicial scrutiny. Case-Laws FEMA Wed, 23 Aug 1989 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=159517