https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173460 Preventive detention requires genuine and reasonable subjective satisfaction based on material showing a real link between the person and the alleged misconduct. Here, the detention was founded mainly on the petitioner's purchases from an authorised dealer and the fact that the kerosene in his possession had been billed as white kerosene. As the record did not show that white kerosene was unavailable, that the dealer lacked authority to sell it, or that the petitioner knew of any diversion of blue kerosene, the inference of collusion was unsupported. The detention order was therefore invalid and liable to be quashed. en-us Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:54:32 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173460 Preventive detention requires genuine and reasonable subjective satisfaction based on material showing a real link between the person and the alleged misconduct. Here, the detention was founded mainly on the petitioner's purchases from an authorised dealer and the fact that the kerosene in his possession had been billed as white kerosene. As the record did not show that white kerosene was unavailable, that the dealer lacked authority to sell it, or that the petitioner knew of any diversion of blue kerosene, the inference of collusion was unsupported. The detention order was therefore invalid and liable to be quashed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173460