This is a petition for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner Shri A.K. Gopalan is a sitting member of the Parliament and the President of the Indian Kisan Satha. He was arrested by the Circle Inspector of Police, Ernakulam, on the 10th of this month at Tripunithura under section 151, Criminal Procedure Code. The circumstances which led up to the arrest as disclosed in the reply affidavit filed by the Circle Inspector, the remand report and the other records produced before Court are as follows:— The Circle Inspector had information that the petitioner and the ten others who were arrested along with him Were organising a mass of volunteers under the auspices of the Kerala Karshaka Sangh and were instigating and inciting them to form themselves into unlawful assemblies and to cause obstruction to public servants in the discharge of their official duties by forcibly blocking all entrances to Government Offices. On the morning of the 10th the Circle Inspector received definite information that the petitioner and the ten others arrested were proceeding towards Tripunithura intent on committing the above mentioned offences with a view to paralysing the wor