1. An unsavoury incident of not too distant origin resulting in the personal liberties of two mature and elderly individuals of some standing in society being invaded, has engaged my attention in course of hearing of this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution at the instance of the hapless losers of liberty. What the two petitioners may have conceived of in humour, turned out to be horror for them; they were put behind bars for having rubbed the high and mighty the wrong way. The alacrity with which the petitioners were arrested, which the given circumstances did not call for, took the intellectual fraternity by utter surprise. The incident was sort of a first of its kind in the State, in the aftermath whereof it seemed that anybody not toeing the line of and/or voicing dissent with the Government and/or those belonging to the ruling dispensation would have his voice stifled. Fortunately for the petitioners, it was not that every authority in the State was in slumber; at least, there was one statutory body that put its foot down and meant business. The present writ petition has been triggered by reason of the said statutory authority and the State Government hav