1. The petitioner, a citizen of India and a native of Androth Island which is one among the group of Islands in the Union Territory of Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands, challenges S.9 of the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands (Laws) Regulation.8 of 1965 and R.3 to 9 and 14 of the Laccadive Minicoy and Aminidivi Islands (Restrictions on Entry and Residence) Rules, 1967 (for convenience referred to in this judgment as Regulation and Rules respectively) and particularly seeks a mandamus directing the Administrator of such Union Territory to forbear from interfering with the right of the Advocate of the petitioner to move freely throughout the Union Territory of Laccadives. The Androth island is one among the group of Islands generally called as Laccadive Islands, Agati, Kavarati and Kalpeni are the other main Islands in this group. These are coral reefs situate in the Arabian Sea away and wast of the western shores of the mainland. These Islands became part of the British Empire in 1909. The Islands are accessable to the mainland by Ships regularly plying in the route. The natives of these Islands are educationally and economically backward. The area is directl