Additional District Magistrate, ... vs S. S. Shukla Etc. Etc on 28 April, 1976
The observations in the cases referred to above show
that the validity of the detention orders could be assailed
despite the Presidential orders of: 1962 and 1974 under
article 359 in case the right relied upon was not one
covered by these Presidential orders. The protection
afforded by those Presidential orders was not absolute, it
Was conditional and confined to ruling out the challenge to
detention orders and other actions taken under the
provisions mentioned in those Presidential orders on the
score of contravention of the articles specified in those
orders. If the detention of a detenu was not in accordance
with the provisions mentioned in the Presidential orders,
the Presidential orders did not have the effect of affording
protection to the detention order and it was permissible to
challenge the validity of the detention on the ground that
it had not been made under the specified provisions but in
contravention of those provisions.