JUDGMENT

M.N. Rao, J. - These two Habeas Corpus applications are interconnected facts alleged and questions of law arising for consideration also are common part from the fact that the petitioner is the same and so, we are inclined to dispose of both the cases by this common judgment.

2. The petitioner-Sri. P. Nedumaran-swears that he is a former member of the Tamilnadu Legislative Assembly and a supporter of the cause of the Sri. Lankan Tamils. He claims that the mother of Captain V. Jayachandran, one of the detenus, instructed him to file. W.P. No. 3792 of f993 and the other detenus also instructed him through his counsel, Sri. S. Dorai Swamy, who interviewed them on 5.3.1993 at Visakhapatnam, to file the writ petition.

3. W.P. No. 37920f1993 was filed for release of nine accused- (1) M/s. V. Jayachandran, (2) K Satkunalingam, (3) V. Krishnamoorty, (4) K Nayagan, (5) S. Sivarajan, (6) S. Indalingam, (7) A Subhash Chandran, (8) S. Balakrishnan and (9) T. Mohan - against whom F.I.R was registered by the Harbour Police Station, Vishapatnam in Crime No. 4 of 1993 under section 25 of the Arms Act, 1959, sections 3 and 5 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908, sections 3 and 4 of the Te