Recently, the Supreme Court quashed a detention order after observing that the authority considered the representation of the detenu after a long delay. According to the Court, the Competent Authority was duty-bound to consider the representation with the utmost dispatch. The Bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and CT Ravikumar made the observation while considering an
Delay in Deciding Representation Enough to Quash Preventive Detention Orders, Rules Supreme Court
