( 1 ) THIS petition, which is under Article 226 of the Constitution and also under Section 491, criminal Procedure Code, has asked a writ of habeas corpus against the opposite parties, who are the State of Uttar Pradesh, the Collector of Mathura, Senior Superintendent of Police Mathura and Superintendent, District Jail, Mathura, in connection with their contention in Mathura jail. The facts giving rise to it are briefly these: a scheme for the consolidation of holdings has been started in Mathura Tehsil under the provisions of the U. P. Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1954. A certain section of the public does not seem to be favourably disposed of towards the working of the scheme. Accordingly some of the supporters of that view announced on 8-7-1957 a public meeting to be held at two Oclock that afternoon. The purpose of the meeting was to invite the attention of the authorities and the Government to certain hardships which the petitioners alleged were being caused to the kisans, particularly in the way the scheme was being worked. Another meeting for the same date, it is further alleged, was announced by the District Congress Committee of Mathura which again was t