Satyanarayana Rao, J.- On the 22nd February, 1951, this Court directed that the petitioner should be set at liberty forthwith and at that time the petitioner was present in Court. We reserved judgment in Crl.M.P. No. 153 of 1951 in which that order was made on 19th February, 1951. According to a note made by the Bench Clerk, the delivery of our judgment was completed on the 22nd February, 1951, at 11-40 a.m. The petitioner then asked us whether he was free to go as the police officers were present in Court. We then told him that he was at liberty to go wherever he pleased as he became a free citizen. The petitioner has filed an affidavit in support of this petition, which is also supported to some extent by the affidavit filed by Mr. V.G. Row, an advocate of this Court, who was advising the petitioner in several proceedings before this Court and was present in Court when Crl.M.P. No. 153 of 1951 was argued and when we pronounced judgment on the 22nd February, 1951. The events that transpired subsequently have been narrated in these two affidavits and the facts are not seriously controverted by the respondents. Immediately after our order was pronounced the petitioner, along with hi

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