S. NAGAMUTHU, J.

In all these Habeas Corpus Petitions, the preventive detention orders passed under sub-section (3) of Section 3 of The National Security Act, 1980 [Central Act 65 of 1980], by the 3rd respondent are under challenge.

2.0. The circumstances under which these detention orders came to be issued by the 3rd respondent are, in brief, as follows:-

2.1. On 04.05.2015 at about 03.00 p.m. one Mr.P.Chandra Mohan, the Inspector of Police, Q Branch CID, Coimbatore District, allegedly received a reliable information from an informant and based on the said information, he rushed to a bakery shop known as, "R.C. Bakery Shop" at Annur Road, Karumathampatti along with follow police personnel and the Village Administrative Officer of Karumathampatti. They reached the said shop, at 03.45 p.m. In the shop, one Shyna @ Shyni @ Shoba @ Rajee [petitioner in H.C.P.No.2268 of 2015] and her four associates (1) Roopesh @ Prasanth @ Praveen @ Prakash @ Ruban @ Kariyan [petitioner in HCP No.2271 of 2015], aged 45 years, S/o.Ramachandran, (2) Kannan @ Senthil @ Kumar @ Minnal, [petitioner in HCP No.2269 of 2015] aged 46 years, Son of Sankaran; (3) Veeramani @ Natraj @ Sunilkumar @ Sara @ Eswar @ Vajramani @ Riswan [petitioner in HCP No.2270 of 2015], aged 60 years, Son of Chinnapillai and (4) Anup Mathew George [petitioner in HCP No.2337 of 2015], aged 32 years Son of George were sitting inside.

2.2. The police party and the Village Administrative Officer of Karumathampatti took cover under the guise of customers of the aforesaid bakery, sat around the five persons, who according to the respondents, belong to Communist Party of India (Maoist). They over heard the conversation held among the five maoists. From their conversation it came to light that they were conspiring for sedition by recruiting youth from Tamilnadu, Kerala and Karnataka to strengthen the armed squad of Communist Party of India (Maoist) in the tri-junction area of Tamilnadu, Kerala and Karnataka States and collection of funds for furthering their terrorist activities. The above said Inspector of Police with the assistance of the police party arrested all the above five persons at 04.30 p.m. since according to the Inspector of Police, they had committed crimes. At the time of arrest, they raised slogans in vernacular Tamil language which means in English "Up up Maoism, down down police atrocities! Success for people's war! Success for armed struggle against the Government! Armed struggle alone is the only way-out for the people's power!". The Inspector of Police with the help of the other police men brought them to Q Branch CID, Office at Coimbatore, with their belongings at 05.00 p.m. At the police station, search was conducted on the detenues. From them, cell phones, pamphlets, letters, incriminating materials and documents from each detenu(e) were recovered under individual mahazar. A cash of Rs.20,000/- was also recovered from Shyna @ Shyni @ Shoba @ Rajee and cash of Rs.16,500/- was recovered from the other detenus.

2.3. In connection with the above occurrence, a case was registered in Crime No.1 of 2015 under Sections 120-B r/w 124-A of IPC and Section 20 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. During the course of investigation, these accused made voluntary confessions individually admitting their involvement in the crime. The investigation revealed that the detenue Shyna @ Shyni @ Shoba @ Rajee and Anup Mathew George are the members of Kerala State Committee of CPI (Maoist) and they were assisting in the activities of Western Ghats Special Zonal Committee of CPI (Maoist) and the others namely, Roopesh @ Prasanth @ Praveen @ Prakash @ Ruban @ Kariyan, Kannan @ Senthil @ Kumar @ Minnal, Veeramani @ Natraj @ Sunilkumar @ Sara @ Eswar @ Vajramani @ Riswan are the members of Western Ghats Special Zonal Committee representing Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karna