J. B. MEHTA, J. M. SHELAT, J.

( 1 ) THIS petition is under Article 226 of the Constitution against an order of detention passed against the petitioner. That order was passed on August 3 1964 by the District Magistrate Ahmedabad under sec. 3 (2) read with sec. 3 (1) (a) (ii) of the Preventive Detention Act IV of 1950. On the same day the District Magistrate passed another order directing that the petitioner should be detained in the Ahmedabad Central Prison and should be treated as a Class II prisoner. The petitioner was furnished with the grounds of detention by a com- munication of the District Magistrate dated August 6 1964 As required by sub-sec. (3) of sec. 3 of the Act the Government of Gujarat gave its approval to the said order on August 11 1964 On August 17 1964 the District Magistrate gave the name of the petitioners alleged associate referred to in para 4 (11) of the said grounds and the names of eight of his other alleged associates referred to in para 4 (13) of the said grounds. It would seem that the State Government thereafter referred the matter to the Advisory Board and presumably upon the Advisory Board report- ing that there was in its opinion sufficient cause for

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