The ASG said that based on various materials placed before him, the district magistrate was convinced and passed the detention order.
“A particular para may be good or may not be good. That will not vitiate the entire detention order. It comes under Section 5 which saves it under the principle of severalty,” Nataraj said.
The Court, however, said that if the grounds have a proximity link, then there will not be any severalty.
Nataraj responded that if one ground can independently exist of the other, then the other ground is suffice to sustain the detention order.
“If one ground goes also, the other grounds can be independently examined and detention order can be sustained,” he said.
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