COMMON ORDER:

V.S. SIRPURKAR, J.

This judgment will dispose of H.C.P. Nos.1038, 1111, 1118, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1122, 1123, 1085, 1170 and 1226 of 2003 as common question of law and also the facts are involved therein. Common arguments were also laid. While H.C.P. Nos.1118, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1122, 1123, 1085, 1170 and 1226 of 2003 have been argued by Shri B. Kumar, learned senior counsel, Shri P.V.S. Giridhar, learned counsel argued H.C.P. Nos.1038 and 1121 of 2003.

2. All the petitions are in the nature of habeas corpus petitions and seeking the liberty of the petitioners from the Special Camp, Chengalpattu, wherein they are lodged being Sri Lankan refugees and treating them as foreigners under Sec.3(2)(e) of the Foreigners Act. In all the writ petitions, the orders, putting them in the Special Camp, passed by the respondent State Government, are also challenged.

3. All these writ petitioners are the citizens of Sri Lanka and they came to India. There has been a constant influx of Sri Lankan citizens as, the political situation in Sri Lanka had become volatile and unsafe. None of them entered the Indian territory with valid documents and after coming to India they were reg