Passey, J.

1. This is an application under Section 226, Constitution of India, for issue of a writ of habeas corpus and for release of the detenu. Shri R. S. Piilta, District Magistrate, Patiala, on being satisfied that with a view to preventing him from acting in a manner prejudicial to the -seourity of the State or the maintenance of publics order, it was necessary to detain the petitioner, made an order in the exeroise of the powers conferred by Section 3 (2), Preventive Detention Act, 1950, that he be detained in the Central Jail. The grounds on which the detention order was based were supplied to the detenu that very day and they stated that he had in his speech in the Qaumi Sadhar Conference held at village Barketpur on 8/9-19-2006 incited the tenants against the biswedars, that he was a regular subscriber of communist literature and was circulating that literature among Comma-nist sympathisers, and that he was in communication with certain under ground Communists. In his application, the detenu has urged that the grounds of detention;, as supplied to him, are vague, insufficient and incomplete and that there was entirely no material in possession of the District Magi