Rameshwar Lal Patwari vs State Of Bihar on 1 December, 1967
The alleged activities have nexus with the object of detention. It is difficult to predicate that the activities had no strong influencing effect to bear up and contribute to the creation of "the subjective satisfaction" of the detaining authority. The final authority to form the requisite opinion rests with the Government or the officer authorised; this Court is not an appellate authority to consider "the sufficiency of the grounds". However, detention without a trial merely on the subjective satisfaction is a serious matter. "It must require the closest scrutiny of the material on which the decision is formed, leaving no room for errors or at least avoidable errors"; as ruled in Rameshwar Lal Patwari v. State of Bihar, AIR 1968 SC 1303.