https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=188161 An inordinate and unexplained delay in executing a preventive detention order can break the live and proximate nexus between the detention grounds and the need for continued detention unless the authorities show that the delay was caused by the detenu and that sincere, effective steps were taken to serve the order. On the facts, the authorities failed to take timely measures or produce reliable contemporaneous material to justify the delay, and their affidavits were inconsistent and unsupported. The delay was therefore not satisfactorily explained, the detention was vitiated, and the preventive detention order was quashed. en-us Mon, 04 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 19 Nov 2016 17:18:05 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=188161 An inordinate and unexplained delay in executing a preventive detention order can break the live and proximate nexus between the detention grounds and the need for continued detention unless the authorities show that the delay was caused by the detenu and that sincere, effective steps were taken to serve the order. On the facts, the authorities failed to take timely measures or produce reliable contemporaneous material to justify the delay, and their affidavits were inconsistent and unsupported. The delay was therefore not satisfactorily explained, the detention was vitiated, and the preventive detention order was quashed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 04 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=188161