Spencer, J.

1. This is an application for the issue of a writ of Habeas Corpus to cause the person of Kochunni Elaya Nair to be brought up before the High Court for the purpose of determining the legality of his detention. The accompanying affidavit states that Kochunni Elaya Nair the second stanee of the Mannarghat Nair family was arrested on September 3rd and imprisoned in the Palghat Sub-Jail. It is alleged that he had at the moment of arrest just arrived at his own residence situated within the limits of the Palghat Municipality and that after some question being put to him as to the Moplah outbreak at Mannarghat the Assistant Superintendent of Police directed the Inspector to take him into the Sub-jail, that no warrant of arrest was shown to him and that he was not told anything about the offence with which he was charged. He was accordingly taken to the Sub-Jail, and on the 6th September an application for bail was put in before the Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Palghat and was summarily rejected. It is added that the Taluk of Palghat, and the town of Palghat within which the petitioners residence and the Sub-Jail are situated, are outside the Martial Law area.

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