JAYACHANDRA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) IN all these three cases the scope of some of the provisions of the terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987, hereafter called tada, and the procedure to be followed by the Courts designated under the said Act, fall for consideration. For the sake of convenience, we shall first state the facts in each case and then examine common submissions made by the learned counsel.

( 2 ) CRL. P No. 1434 of 1989: Crime No. 44 of 1989 was registered in Lingala Police Station under Sections 147, 148, 34i, 302 read with 149 I. P. C. and 3 (2) of TADA. The Inspector of Police, Pulivendala, filed the charge-sheet in the Court of Judicial First Class Magistrate, Pulivendala, against five accused. The learned Magistrate took it on file as P. R. C. No. 5 of 1989 and committed the case to the Court of Sessions on 7-8-1989. Pending the trial of the said Sessions Case, bail applications were filed on behalf of some of the accused and A-4 and A-5 were released on bail by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Cuddapah, before whom the sessions case arising out of P. R. C. No. 5 of 1989 was pending. A-1 moved the high Court for bail and our learned brother Jagan

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