Judgment

CHANDRACHUD, J. :- This appeal by special leave is directed against the judgment dated August 11, 1971, of the High Court at Bombay, dismissing the petition filed by the appellant under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution to challenge an order of externment passed by the 1st respondent.

2. On October 9, 1969, a notice of even date was served on the appellant under Section 59 of the Bombay Police Act, 22 of 1951, asking him to appear before the Assistant Commissioner of Police, M Division, Bombay, in answer to the allegations contained in the notice. Briefly, the allegations were that the appellant s acts and movements were causing harm, alarm and danger to the residents of certain localities within the jurisdiction of Vile Parle Police Station, that he was given to assaulting the residents of those localities either because they were suspected to be police informants or because they failed to accede to the demands of money, that he had committed robberies in the particular localities, that since March 1969, he had committed several acts of the above description and that witnesses were not willing to come forward to depose against him in public. The appellant appeared