https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=299988 A preventive detention order based on multiple grounds fails if one ground is irrelevant, non-existent, or unessential and the Court cannot safely conclude that the detaining authority would have reached the same subjective satisfaction on the remaining ground alone. Here, a solitary murderous assault was treated as a law and order matter and not a public order ground, while the separate incident of setting fire to a school was relevant to public order. Because the irrelevant ground was not merely minor and its exclusion could have affected subjective satisfaction, the detention order was invalid and was struck down. en-us Tue, 31 Oct 1972 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 07 Jan 2022 16:47:27 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=299988 A preventive detention order based on multiple grounds fails if one ground is irrelevant, non-existent, or unessential and the Court cannot safely conclude that the detaining authority would have reached the same subjective satisfaction on the remaining ground alone. Here, a solitary murderous assault was treated as a law and order matter and not a public order ground, while the separate incident of setting fire to a school was relevant to public order. Because the irrelevant ground was not merely minor and its exclusion could have affected subjective satisfaction, the detention order was invalid and was struck down. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 31 Oct 1972 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=299988