Judgment

DUA, J.:- Talib Hussain @ Abdul Rehman son of Feroz Din forwarded through Central Jail, Jammu his application for a writ of habeas corpus. According to the averments made therein the petitioner was arrested on September 4, 1968 but the warrant for his detention was dated September 10, 1968. upto December 12, 1969, he was neither shown the warrant of detention nor were the grounds of his detention communicated to him He was served with a copy of the warrant of detention on December 12, 1969. The petitioner had by then already filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus (W. P. No. 400 of 1969) but that application was withdrawn by him. On December 5, 1968 the petitioner was transferred from interrogation centre to the Central Jail, Jammu. On December 10, 1968 he was told that the grounds of detention could not be disclosed to him and this was long after the expiry of ten days from his arrest. The petitioner was tortured at the interrogation centre, Jammu, and his signatures were forcibly obtained on a piece of blank paper. The petitioner claimed to be a permanent resident of village Azamabad, police station Thana Darhal, Tahsil and District Rajouri. His arrest was allege