https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=43275 Unexplained delay in executing a preventive detention order can invalidate detention by undermining the detaining authority's subjective satisfaction and breaking the live and proximate link with the alleged prejudicial activity. The Delhi HC found the explanation for delay vague and unsatisfactory because it did not disclose the efforts made to secure execution, the officers involved, or the dates and times of attempted service. On those facts, the delay remained inadequately explained, so the detention order was held unsustainable and quashed. en-us Tue, 31 Mar 1992 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:51:27 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=43275 Unexplained delay in executing a preventive detention order can invalidate detention by undermining the detaining authority's subjective satisfaction and breaking the live and proximate link with the alleged prejudicial activity. The Delhi HC found the explanation for delay vague and unsatisfactory because it did not disclose the efforts made to secure execution, the officers involved, or the dates and times of attempted service. On those facts, the delay remained inadequately explained, so the detention order was held unsustainable and quashed. Case-Laws Customs Tue, 31 Mar 1992 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=43275