https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=175982 Preventive detention under the COFEPOSA Act requires genuine subjective satisfaction based on relevant material; where the record shows that the detaining authority could not have properly scrutinised the voluminous papers and merely approved the proposal mechanically, the detention order is vitiated for non-application of mind. Because the declarations under Section 9(1) were issued in aid of those detention orders and depended on them, they had no independent survival once the detention orders were invalidated. The consequential declarations were therefore also quashed, and the preventive detention proceedings failed in full. en-us Thu, 05 Dec 1991 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 09 Dec 2015 16:56:59 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=175982 Preventive detention under the COFEPOSA Act requires genuine subjective satisfaction based on relevant material; where the record shows that the detaining authority could not have properly scrutinised the voluminous papers and merely approved the proposal mechanically, the detention order is vitiated for non-application of mind. Because the declarations under Section 9(1) were issued in aid of those detention orders and depended on them, they had no independent survival once the detention orders were invalidated. The consequential declarations were therefore also quashed, and the preventive detention proceedings failed in full. Case-Laws Customs Thu, 05 Dec 1991 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=175982