JUDGMENT

DESAI, J.:— On Oct. 8, 1982, we quashed and set aside the detention order dated Dec. 26. 1981 in respect of detenu Merugu Satyanarayana s/o Ramchander, deferring th giving of the reasons to a later date.

2. On the same day we quashed the detention order dated Feb. 13, 1982, in respect of detenu Bandela Ramulu @ Lehidas @ Peddi Rajulu @ Ramesh, . s/o. Venkati, deferring the giving of the reasons to a later date.

3. Identical contentions were raised in both these petitions and, therefore, by this common order we proceed to give our reasons on the basis of which we made the aforementioned orders.

W. P. 1166/82.

4. Detenu M. Satyanarayana was working in Belampalli Coal Mines. According to him he was arrested on Oct. 22, 1981, but was kept in unlawful custody till Oct. 31, 1981, when he was produced before the Judicial Magistrate who took him in judicial custody and sent him to Central Jail, Warangal. According to the respondents detenu was arrested on Oct. 30, 1981, and was produced before the Judicial Magistrate on Oct. 31, 1981. When he was thus confined in jail a detention order dated Dec. 26, 1981 (in the counter-affidavit the date of the detention order is shown to be Dec. 28