1. This is a petition for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus or such other direction as is necessary in the interests of justice", filed by Sry. Rassammal Kunjan on behalf of her husband Sri. A. Kunjan Nadar, an Advocate of this Court and a member of the Travancore Cochin Legislative Assembly, Sri. Kunjan Nadar, who will here-in-after be referred to as the prisoner, was arrested by the police at half-past one during the night between the 11th August 1954 and 12th August 1954. The arrest was from his residence at Nagercoil. According to the petitioner, the arrest was without any legal justification and like-wise was the detention which followed it. The petition was filed in the High Court, Ernakulam on 23rd August 1954 and after a preliminary hearing on 25th August a Division Bench (Koshi, C.J. & Kumara Pillai, J.) issued a writ nisi directing the respondents to the petition to show cause why the petition should not be granted and the prisoner released from custody and also to cause his production before the Trivandrum Bench on 31st August 1954, the date to which the petition was posted for hearing. Along with this were filed twelve like petitions (O.P. Nos. 90 & 94 to