JUDGMENT

S. Ratnavel Pandian, J.-This appeal by special leave under Article 136 of the Constitution of India is preferred against the Judgment made in Criminal Writ Petition No. 627/88 on the file of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay dismissing the writ petition filed by the appellant assailing the validity and legality of the order of detention dated 28th April, 1988 passed against him by the Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), Government of India, New Delhi under section 3(1) of the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act~ 1974 (hereinafter referred as the 'Act') with a view to preventing the appellant from indulging in activities prejudicial to the augmentation of country's foreign exchange resources.

2. The detaining authority on the material placed before him arrived at a conclusion that the detenu (appellant) was indulging in receiving and making payments in India unauthorisedly under instructions from a person residing abroad in violation of the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Regulations Act, 1973 and reached its subjective satisfaction that the said unauthorised and illegal transactions carried on by the