https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=468460 Preventive detention cannot rest on ordinary criminality alone: allegations of chain-snatching, robbery or similar FIRs, without relevant and proximate material showing an impact on public order, are insufficient to justify detention. The Court held that the law-and-order/public-order distinction turns on degree and reach, and that mere criminal antecedents or habitual conduct do not establish the statutory satisfaction required for preventive detention. The order was also vitiated by non-application of mind because the detaining authority used some FIRs as criminal history while excluding them from the grounds of detention, introducing extraneous material into the subjective satisfaction. The detention order and the affirming judgment were set aside, and release was directed. en-us Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 07 May 2026 17:52:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=468460 Preventive detention cannot rest on ordinary criminality alone: allegations of chain-snatching, robbery or similar FIRs, without relevant and proximate material showing an impact on public order, are insufficient to justify detention. The Court held that the law-and-order/public-order distinction turns on degree and reach, and that mere criminal antecedents or habitual conduct do not establish the statutory satisfaction required for preventive detention. The order was also vitiated by non-application of mind because the detaining authority used some FIRs as criminal history while excluding them from the grounds of detention, introducing extraneous material into the subjective satisfaction. The detention order and the affirming judgment were set aside, and release was directed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=468460