JUDGMENT - C.S. DHARMADHIKARI, J.:---As all these writ petitions involve common questions of law and facts, they were heard together and are being disposed of by the judgment. In these writ petitions the detenus were detained by the Commissioner of Police, Thane in exercise of powers conferred upon him by section 3(2) of the National Security Act, with a view to preventing them from acting in any manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order. Together with the orders of detention, grounds of detention and the copies of the documents referred to and relied upon were also supplied to the detenus. It is these orders of detention and the continued detention of the detenus which are challenged in these writ petitions.

2. It is not necessary to make a detailed reference to the various averment made in the petitions or in the affidavit interplay, since the Counsel for the petitioners has mainly argued before us only the questions of law which are common to all these writ petitions.

3. Shri Kotwal, the learned Counsel appearing for the petitioner contended before us that the continued detention of the detenus is bad in law since admittedly the State Government has reported the fact o

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