( 1 ) THESE are two writ petitions under Articles 14, 19, 21 and 22 of the Constitution of India and section 491 of the Code of Criminal Procedure by Mo-hammad Yusuf Abbas and Sheo Murat singh for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus directing the release of the petitioners from the district Jail, Ghazipur, where they are lodged at present. They arise out of similar facts and we, therefore, propose to decide both these writ petitions by one judgment.

( 2 ) IT appears that the petitioners were arrested on 11-9-1958 in pursuance of a warrant issued by a Magistrate of the 1st Class under Section 114 of the Code of Criminal Procedure on the ground that there was an immediate apprehension of the breach of the peace from their side. After their arrest they were produced before the Magistrate. Notice under Section 112, Cr. P. C. was read out to them and before further proceedings could be taken against them Sheo Murat Singh made an application to the Court that further proceedings be stayed as he intended to apply for the transfer of the case to some other Court, Thereupon the proceedings were stayed and the petitioners were remanded to jail custody during me pendency of the inquiry.

( 3 ) IT has been contended before us on behalf of the petitioners that the order of remand passed by the learned Magistrate for the detention of the petitioners in Jail and the consequent detention of the petitioners in jail, was illegal on the ground that the notice under Section 112, Cr. P. C. had not been read out to the petitioners nor after their arrest by the police they were produced before a Magistrate. It, was further contended that even if it was accepted that the petitioners after their arrest were produced before a Magistrate and the order under Section 112, Cr. P. C. was read over to them there was not sufficient compliance of the provisions of Section 112 because the substance of the information on which the learned Magistrate apprehended that there was an immediate apprehension of the breach of the peace had not been, mentioned in the order under Section 112, cr. P. C. and, as such, the order was illegal. It may be mentioned here that the allegations in the affidavit filed on behalf of the petitioners that they were not produced before any Magistrate after their arrest by the police and that the order under Section 112, Cr. P. C. had not been read over to them, has been denied on behalf of the State in the counter-affidavit and we have seen no satisfactory reason to disbelieve that part of the allegation contained in the counter-affidavit.

( 4 ) IN view of the fact that an inquiry under Section 117 (3), Cr. P. C. had to be held against the petitioners and it was at the request of one of them, namely, Sheo Murat Singh, who was also a party to the case, that the entire proceedings had to be stayed, we have not been able to find as to what was to be done to the petitioners when they had refused to offer bail and when according to the police report there was an immediate apprehension of the breach of the peace from their side. Learned counsel for the petitioners contended that in the absence of any definite finding by the learned Magistrate till the inquiry under Section 117 (3), Cr. P. C. was pending against them, they should have been released after the notice under Section 112 had been read out to them even if the allegations in the counter-affidavit to that effect were to be accepted. We are afraid we are not able to accept this contention on behalf of the petitioners. In our opinion the learned Magistrate was quite justified in remanding the petitioners to jail custody during the pendency of the inquiry linger Section 117 (3), Cr. P. C. particularly when the petitioners did not choose to offer bail for their release during the pendency of the inquiry. This view of ours finds support from a decision of a Bench of this Court of which one of us was a member in the case of Vasu Deo Ojha v. State of Uttar Pradesh, 1958 ALJR