https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=289645 Preventive detention under the Act must rest on live, material facts and strict conformity with the statutory language. Grounds based on 1977 incidents were held too stale to support a 1979 detention order because they lacked the necessary nexus with current preventive satisfaction. An order framed only to prevent a person from "keeping smuggled goods" did not satisfy Section 3(1), which requires detention to prevent a person from "engaging in" that activity. Non-placement before the detaining authority of the connected show-cause notice, reply, adjudication order, and related facts was also treated as a failure to consider vital material, vitiating the detention. en-us Fri, 22 Jun 1979 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:56:23 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=289645 Preventive detention under the Act must rest on live, material facts and strict conformity with the statutory language. Grounds based on 1977 incidents were held too stale to support a 1979 detention order because they lacked the necessary nexus with current preventive satisfaction. An order framed only to prevent a person from "keeping smuggled goods" did not satisfy Section 3(1), which requires detention to prevent a person from "engaging in" that activity. Non-placement before the detaining authority of the connected show-cause notice, reply, adjudication order, and related facts was also treated as a failure to consider vital material, vitiating the detention. Case-Laws Customs Fri, 22 Jun 1979 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=289645