Satyanarayana Rao, J.-This is a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for the issue of a Writ of Certiorari for calling the records and quashing the order of the State of Madras in G.O.Ms. No. 1517, Public (General) dated 10th March, 1950, declaring under section 16 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1908, the People’s Education Society as an unlawful association. The petitioner is the General Secretary of the People’s Education Society registered in November, 1947, under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (Act XXI of 1860) and is also a barrister-at-law and an advocate of this Court and the Supreme Court’

The objects of the Society as stated in the affidavit of the petitioner are among others: (a) to encourage, promote, diffuse, and popularise useful knowledge in all sciences and more specially Social Science: (b) to encourage, promote, diffuse and popularise political education among people; (c) to encourage, promote and popularise the study and understanding of all social and political problems and bring about social and political reforms; and (d) to promote, encourage and popularise art, literature and drama. The notification by the respondent, the State of M

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