G. BIKSHAPATHY, J.

( 1 ) COMMON questions of law are raised in these writ petitions and hence they are being disposed of by a common judgment, however, keeping in view the incidents in each individual case.

( 2 ) THE Collector and the District magistrate, Anantapur by virtue of the powers vested in him under Section 3 of a. P. Prevention of Dangerous Activities of bootleggers, Dacoits, Drug Offenders, goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and land Grabbers Act (1 of 1986) (for brief the act ), passed Orders of detention. Consequently, writs of habeas corpus came to be filed by the petitioners on behalf of detenus seeking production and release of the detenus after holding the Order of detention as illegal and invalid.

( 3 ) THE learned Senior Counsel appearing for the petitioners and the learned advocate-General have elaborately and minutously argued most of the general issues arising out of preventive detention Orders. Therefore, it became inevitable for us to deal with each and every contention in extenso.

( 4 ) THE learned Senior Counsel appearing for the petitioners Mr. C. Padmanabha Reddy advanced the following common submissions in the writ petitions:1. The grounds referred to

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