Satyanarayana Rao, J.-The applicants in all these applications are Indians who were living in Malaya for some years, and as they were engaged in Malaya in Communist activities, the Malayan Government seems to have detained some of the important leaders under the Malayan Emergency Regulations. But as they are Indian nationals, the Malayan Government released them and repatriated them. The applicants along with others arrived in India by S.S. Vasna in November, 1948. Immediately after their arrival, on the 19th November, 1948, they were arrested by the police in Madras and were detained in custody. They were later produced before the Commissioner of Police, Madras, who remanded them for 9 days, and the period of remand was later extended by a further order. On the 30th November, 1948 orders of detention under Madras Act 1 of 1947 were passed by His Excellency the Governor of Madras under section 2(1) of the Act directing the detention of the applicants in the Central Jail, Vellore. The grounds of detention were served on these applicants on the 24th December, 1948, and they submitted their representations to the Government on 7th January, 1949. The matter does not seem to hav