The petitioner herein who is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and a Barrister-at-law, applies to this Court under the provisions of Article 226 of the Constitution of India for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus directing the respondents to produce him before this Court, and set him at liberty forthwith.

According to the affidavit filed in support of the application it is stated that while he was residing permanently in “Rajbhuvan,” Sandhurst Road, Bombay, he was arrested on the 24th June, 1950, by the Bombay Police at Kistori Court, Worli Sea Face, Bombay, where he and his wife had been invited to stay for a day. No warrant was shown to him at the time of his arrest. He was taken to the Office of the Commissioner of Police, Bombay, where a detention order of the same date was served on him. On the 27th June, 1950, one Mr.H.S. Bhat, an Advocate of the Bombay High Court, wrote a letter to the Commissioner of Police, Greater Bombay, stating that he had been instructed by the wife of the petitioner to move the High Court of Bombay about the arrest and detention of the petitioner and for that purpose he requested the Commissioner to send him the grounds of detention im