https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=288901 In preventive detention under Section 3(1) of the COFEPOSA Act, the presence of one irrelevant, non-existent, vague, or otherwise invalid ground vitiates the entire detention order because the detention rests on the detaining authority's subjective satisfaction. The court cannot apply severance by ignoring the bad ground and then asking whether the authority would have reached the same satisfaction on the remaining material, as that would amount to an impermissible review of sufficiency. The Act does not alter this principle, and the order cannot be salvaged on surviving grounds alone. en-us Thu, 19 Jun 1975 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 04 Jul 2020 17:38:23 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=288901 In preventive detention under Section 3(1) of the COFEPOSA Act, the presence of one irrelevant, non-existent, vague, or otherwise invalid ground vitiates the entire detention order because the detention rests on the detaining authority's subjective satisfaction. The court cannot apply severance by ignoring the bad ground and then asking whether the authority would have reached the same satisfaction on the remaining material, as that would amount to an impermissible review of sufficiency. The Act does not alter this principle, and the order cannot be salvaged on surviving grounds alone. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 19 Jun 1975 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=288901