Judgment

HIDAYATULLAH, C.J.I. -The petitioner Ghulam Nabi Zaki has been detained under Section 3(1) (a) of the Jammu and Kashmir Preventive Detention Act, 1964, by an order passed on August 20, 1969. He was originally arrested on November 9, 1968, under an order passed under the same section on August 23, 1968. After the first order was passed, a second order was passed by the Government on November 12, 1968, under Section 8(2), read with Section 13(1)(a)(1) of the Act, stating that in the interest of security of the State,* the grounds of detention could not be disclosed. Against the first order, the writ petition No. 168 of 1969 was filed in this Court. On September 6, 1969, the two orders of detention which had been passed against the detenu were served on him with the counter-affidavit filed in the writ petition. Previously, both the orders, that is to say, the order under Section 3 and the order under Section 8(2), were not served on the petitioner. On August 20, 1969, the first two orders were revoked, and under Section 14(1) of the Act, the same day, a fresh order of detention was passed which is now being challenged in these proceedings. The same day, yet another order unde