Section 6 of the Prevention of Black-marketing and Maintenance of Supplies of Essential Commodities…
Section 6 provides that no detention order is invalid or inoperative merely because the person, or the place of detention, is outside the territorial jurisdiction of the…
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Section 6 of the Prevention of Black-marketing and Maintenance of Supplies of Essential Commodities Act, 1980 protects detention orders from challenge on the ground of:
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Correct answer C
Section 6 provides that no detention order is invalid or inoperative merely because the person, or the place of detention, is outside the territorial jurisdiction of the authority making it. It gives no protection against challenges for mala fides or for breach of the safeguards in Article 22(5) of the Constitution.