Judgment

SIKRI C.J.I - This is a petition under Article 32 of the Constitution challenging the detention of the petitioner by order No. 50/PDA/70 dated August 3, 1970 passed by Syed Mohammad Shaffi Andrabi, I.A.S. District Magistrate, Poonch, under Section 3 (2) read with Section 5 of the Jammu & Kashmir Preventive Detention Act, 1964. In this order it is stated that the District Magistrate is satisfied that with a view to preventing Lal Mohd. son of Fazal-ud-Din, resident of Arri P.S. Mendhar District Poonch, from acting a in a manner prejudicial to the security of State, it was necessary to detain him. By another order dated August 3, 1970 the said District Magistrate considered it against the public interest to disclose the grounds of detention to Lal Mohd. and he therefore directed in pursuance of Section 8 read with Section 13 A of the Act that the said Lad Mohd. be informed that it was against the security of the State to disclose to him the grounds on which his detention order was made. On August 24, 1970 the Government, having considered the order of detention along with the report of the District Magistrate and the grounds on which the order had been made and other particul