This judgment leaves no room for doubt that the Orissa High Court has taken strong exception to illegal detention of petitioner detenu which is bad in law. It has therefore very rightly quashed the detention order by the state government while giving reasons for the same as stated above. The bottom line also is that the exercise of power of preventive detention has to be exercised with proper circumspection and due care and legal obligation in such cases must be discharged with great sense of responsibility.
