JUDGMENT

S. RATNAVEL PANDIAN, J. - Two important questions arising for consideration in the above matter are:

Whether the petitioners 1 and 2 have been illegally detained from 21.5.1989 to 1.8.1989 without any order of remand ?

Whether the petitioners 1 to 3 on being arrested were subjected to torture and treated in a degrading and inhuman manner by handcuffing and parading them through the public thorough fare during transit to the Court in utter disregard to the judicial mandates declared in a number of decisions of this Court and whether they are entitled for compensation?

2. The salient and material facts as set out in the Writ Petitions are as follows:

The petitioners are social workers and Members of 'Kisan Adivasi Sangathan', Kesala. The said 'sangathan' is actively working against all kinds of exploitation purported against the local fanners and tribal people in the district of Hoshangabad. In villages of Morpani and Madikhoh of Hoshangabad District there was only one school teacher employed in the Morpani school. The teacher was not attending the school for the last one and half years. Inspite of several complaints lodged against the teacher, the authorities did not pay an