JUDGMENT

Ranganath Misra, J.- This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging the validity of the Order of detention passed by the Distt. Magistrate, Agra on 31st August, 1986, directing that the petitioner be detained in the District Jail, Agra under Sub-Section (3) of Section 3 of the National Security Act, 1980. The order of detention was served on the petitioner on 31st August, 1980, alongwith the grounds of detention. The grounds of detention set out only one ground in the following terms:

"From the first information report which was been lodged by the informant complainant Sri Anil Kumar Shukla, S/o Bhola Nath Shukla, R/o Village Tikaura Police Station Kishanpur District, Fathepur, it appears that on 24.6.1986 at about 9:30 A.M. you alongwith your other companions, including Pappu Jain, Aklaish alias Raja Telang and others jointly committed the murder of the complainants brother namely Atma Ram Shukla by firing at him in broad day light, near the clinic of Dr. Laxmi Naryana Gupta with the object of getting the land vacated by him. By this act of yours panic has spread in the area and General Public Order has been disturbed. You were arrested on 27.6.86 and were sent