https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173468 A preventive detention order under COFEPOSA was held invalid because the detaining authority was not supplied with the detenu's retraction of his confession before forming subjective satisfaction. The Court treated this omission as going to the root of the detention, since the retraction was material to the basis on which detention was ordered. The seizure of gold biscuits was not accepted as an independent ground sustaining the order; it formed part of the same composite foundation as the confession. On that reasoning, the detention order was liable to be quashed. en-us Wed, 20 Mar 1991 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:49:24 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173468 A preventive detention order under COFEPOSA was held invalid because the detaining authority was not supplied with the detenu's retraction of his confession before forming subjective satisfaction. The Court treated this omission as going to the root of the detention, since the retraction was material to the basis on which detention was ordered. The seizure of gold biscuits was not accepted as an independent ground sustaining the order; it formed part of the same composite foundation as the confession. On that reasoning, the detention order was liable to be quashed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 20 Mar 1991 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173468