Judgement

PATHAK, CJI. :- The petitioners Fazal Ghosi and Wahid in the two writ petitions before us and the appellants Ayaz Ahmad and Riaz Ahmad in the two Criminal Appeals are aggrieved by the orders of detention made respectively in respect of them under sub-s. (2) of S. 3 of the National Security Act, 1980. The petitioners Fazal Ghosi and Wahid filed writ petitions in the High Court of Allahabad against the detention orders concerning them and those writ petitions were dismissed. They have now filed the present petitions under Art. 32 of the Constitution. The appellants Ayaz Ahmad and Riaz Ahmad filed writ petitions in the High Court of Allahabad against the detention orders concerning them, and those writ petitions having been dismissed they have appealed here by special leave. All the four cases have been heard together, It is agreed between the parties that although separate orders of detention were made under sub-s. (2) of S. 3 of the National Security Act against the various petitioners and appellants the grounds raised in this Court against their detention orders are identical.

2. It appears that consequent upon the opening of the Ram Janam Bhumi temple at Ayodhya, Faizabad,