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The legal effect of Section 10-A of the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 is primarily to:

Section 10-A saves a detention order from invalidity where some of its grounds are defective, by treating it as made separately on each ground. The maximum period of…

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The legal effect of Section 10-A of the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 is primarily to:

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Section 10-A saves a detention order from invalidity where some of its grounds are defective, by treating it as made separately on each ground. The maximum period of detention is fixed by section 18, not by section 10-A.

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