https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173466 Section 5A of the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974 treats a preventive detention order based on two or more grounds as separately made on each ground. As a result, one vague, irrelevant, or unsustainable ground does not invalidate the whole detention order if another ground is clear and specific. The provision was enacted to overcome the earlier view that a defective ground necessarily vitiated the entire order because subjective satisfaction could not be severed. The correct position is that composite detention grounds are severable, so the order may be sustained where at least one independent ground remains valid. en-us Thu, 08 Jan 1981 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:34:13 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173466 Section 5A of the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974 treats a preventive detention order based on two or more grounds as separately made on each ground. As a result, one vague, irrelevant, or unsustainable ground does not invalidate the whole detention order if another ground is clear and specific. The provision was enacted to overcome the earlier view that a defective ground necessarily vitiated the entire order because subjective satisfaction could not be severed. The correct position is that composite detention grounds are severable, so the order may be sustained where at least one independent ground remains valid. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 08 Jan 1981 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173466