https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=286217 A preventive detention order is vitiated where even one of its stated grounds is extraneous and not legally sustainable. The Court noted that Ground No. 1 did not satisfy the ingredients of extortion because it failed to allege that any person was intentionally put in fear of injury, so it could not form a lawful basis for detention. Because the detention rested on multiple grounds and there was nothing to show the authority would have acted without being influenced by the invalid ground, the order could not stand. The detention was therefore invalid and the detenue was entitled to release. en-us Thu, 03 Feb 1972 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:00:45 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=286217 A preventive detention order is vitiated where even one of its stated grounds is extraneous and not legally sustainable. The Court noted that Ground No. 1 did not satisfy the ingredients of extortion because it failed to allege that any person was intentionally put in fear of injury, so it could not form a lawful basis for detention. Because the detention rested on multiple grounds and there was nothing to show the authority would have acted without being influenced by the invalid ground, the order could not stand. The detention was therefore invalid and the detenue was entitled to release. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 03 Feb 1972 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=286217