The Bombay High Court has urged authorities to pass preventive detention orders with extreme care and caution as a casual approach may deprive a person of his "most precious" fundamental right, his freedom and liberty, reported news agency PTI.

A division bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande on July 2 quashed a preventive detention order passed against a man in October 2023, noting he was not given an opportunity to file a representation against the order, and directed that he be released.