Preventive detention is unconstitutional if all grounds aren't communicated.

Preventive detention is unconstitutional if all grounds aren't communicated.

A preventive detention order issued against a man accused of drug peddling was set aside by the Orissa High Court. The court held the order in breach of Article 22(5) of the Constitution, as grounds for detaining him did not specify all cases where the detaining authority decided to take action. On this basis, the High Court quashed both his detention order and the confirmation order made later, saying he'd had no chance to make an effective representation. The petitioner was ordered to be set at liberty.

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