The Supreme Court has ruled that a mere apprehension of a detenu engaging in crime if granted bail is insufficient grounds for preventive detention. A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and A S Chandurkar set aside a woman's detention order from Hyderabad, who was classified as a 'drug offender' under a Telangana law. The court found the detention order lacked specific reasoning on how public order was affected or likely to be affected, emphasizing that ordinary legal proceedings should have a deterrent effect.