BARMAN, C. J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner -- an Excise vendor of Cuttack town, paying about Rs. 16000/-as license fee to Government was detained in pursuance of a detention order dated december 15, 1967 passed under Section 3 (1) (a) (ii) of the Preventive Detention act, 1950 (Act 4 of 1950 hereinafter referred to as the Act) purporting to prevent the petitioner from acting in any manner preiudicial to the maintenance of public order. It is said that the petitioner was served with a document signed bv the district Magistrate. Cuttack pur-portina to incorporate the order of detention and the grounds all written in English which the petitioner, it is said, did not at all understand. The petitioner's case is that he had only a smattering knowledge of oriva and no knowledge at all of English.

( 2 ) ON December 19, 1967 the petitioner filed a writ petition in this Court challenging the validity of the said detention order and for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus settinr the petitioner at liberty and of a writ of mandamus quashing the impugned order of detention on the various grounds incorporated therein, but mainly on the ground that the petitioner was not communicated the grounds in th