JUDGMENT- ASHOK AGARWAL, J.:---The present petitions seek to impugn the orders of detention passed on 10th September, 1993 passed by the Commissioner of Police, Thane, under section 3(2) of the National Security Act. The orders of detention were served on the detenus-petitioners on the very day i.e. on 10h September, 1993. The grounds of detention were contemporaneously served on the detenus on the very day namely 10th September, 1993. The grounds of detention are practically identical in both the petitions. Grounds of detention in Criminal Writ Petition No. 1357 of 1993 inter alia recite as under :---

"On 3-4-1992 at about 10.00 hours, the daughter of the complainant Miss Pushpa alongwith her friends Miss Vanita and Miss Jaishri who were also studying in Funde High School and staying in Bhendkhal village, left home for High School for attending Examination paper. When they were crossing a Nallaha situated in the limits of Navghar village, you and your associate Abhay Parshuram Bhagat came there in a hired Maruti Van No. MH/03/B/916 and your associate Abhay dragged Miss Pushpa and forcibly took her in the said Van. Miss Pushpa and her friends Miss Vanita and Miss Jaishri raise

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