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Definition :

Punitive detention, is intended to inflict punish-ment or a person who is found by the judicial process to have committed an offence while preventive detention is not by way of punishment at all, but is intended to pre-empt a person from indulging in conduct injurious to the society, Francis Coraise Mullin v. Administration of Delhi, AIR 1981 SC 746: (1981) Cr LJ 306.

Means when a person as a result of conviction for some offence or where he is under preventive detention because of an order of detention having been made under the defence of India Rules or the Preventive Detention Act, Harkishan Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1996 Punj 248.