https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=254599 Unexplained delay in passing and executing a preventive detention order can vitiate detention where the material was already available and no satisfactory reason explains the lack of urgency or the gap in execution. The court also held that grounds of detention and relied upon documents must be communicated as soon as may be, ordinarily within five days, and up to fifteen days only in genuine exceptional circumstances recorded in writing; administrative inconvenience, holidays, or absence of an officer do not qualify. On those facts, the detention was quashed for breach of the constitutional and statutory safeguards under Article 22(5) and the COFEPOSA framework. en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 11:40:31 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=254599 Unexplained delay in passing and executing a preventive detention order can vitiate detention where the material was already available and no satisfactory reason explains the lack of urgency or the gap in execution. The court also held that grounds of detention and relied upon documents must be communicated as soon as may be, ordinarily within five days, and up to fifteen days only in genuine exceptional circumstances recorded in writing; administrative inconvenience, holidays, or absence of an officer do not qualify. On those facts, the detention was quashed for breach of the constitutional and statutory safeguards under Article 22(5) and the COFEPOSA framework. Case-Laws Customs Thu, 04 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=254599