( 1 ) THIS writ petition raises a question of considerable constitutional importance, viz, whether the "handmaid" of law and order could be an adjudicator as well? If it is answered in favour of the executive, it portends to sow poisonous seeds to rock off the edifice of the rule of law to its bottom chilling the public confidence in its efficacy. An attempt in futility has been made to impede this court to angulate into that question by putting forth locus standi as its blockade. But suffice it to need hardly remind mr. S K. Vyas, the second respondent-Superintendent of Police Urban Police district, Vijayawada, the deponent of the counter affidavit that it is too late in the day that since the "steadfast adherence of standing" hitherto held its fortress has been swept off its shore root and branch by the activist and pragmatic fidal waves, blown from the prevailing oceanic conditions of the Indian society, by their Lordships of the Supreme Court, in particular, Bhagwatt, J (as he then was) leaving only a solid small island, viz, judicial discretion to the Court to consider each case in the light of its facts as an exception.

( 2 ) FOR elaboration thereof, it is