https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=192286 Preventive detention is vitiated when the detaining authority forms subjective satisfaction on the basis of irrelevant or unconnected documents. The text notes that the detention grounds expressly stated that all accompanying documents were relied upon, yet several listed papers and search panchnamas had no nexus with the alleged smuggling activity or the detainee's conduct. That mismatch indicated mechanical exercise and non-application of mind. A later attempt in the counter-affidavit to describe the material as merely considered did not cure the defect because it conflicted with the categorical statement in the detention grounds and did not identify the actual relied-upon documents. The detention order was therefore liable to be quashed. en-us Thu, 12 Aug 1993 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 27 May 2017 13:21:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=192286 Preventive detention is vitiated when the detaining authority forms subjective satisfaction on the basis of irrelevant or unconnected documents. The text notes that the detention grounds expressly stated that all accompanying documents were relied upon, yet several listed papers and search panchnamas had no nexus with the alleged smuggling activity or the detainee's conduct. That mismatch indicated mechanical exercise and non-application of mind. A later attempt in the counter-affidavit to describe the material as merely considered did not cure the defect because it conflicted with the categorical statement in the detention grounds and did not identify the actual relied-upon documents. The detention order was therefore liable to be quashed. Case-Laws FEMA Thu, 12 Aug 1993 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=192286