( 1 ) THIS, petition under Article 226 of the Constitution and Section 491 of the Code of Criminal procedure was presented by Shravan Kumar Gupta requesting this Court for issue of a writ of habeas Corpus in respect of 8 persons Radhey Shiam, Joshi, Pujari Tika Ram, Thakur Lakhi singh, Bharat Singh, Loharey Singh, Teja Singh, Hoti Lal and Bam Singh, who were being detained in the district jail Mathura under warrants issued to the jail authorities by the sub-divisional Magistrate Chhata. The circumstances under which these persons were detained, as given by Shravan Kumar Gupta, are that all these 8 persons as well as the petitioner Shravan Kumar Gupta are members of the district Hind Kisan Panchayat, Mathura or the District Socialist Party of Mathura. These two parties decided to hold a Workers Training Camp with some public meetings on the 6th, 7th and 8th of August, 1956 in village Chaumha Sub-Division Chhata, district Mathura, the place for the camp so fixed is a local compound belonging to Thakur Har Govind Singh, when the camp actually came to be held, however, it was found that that compound was not spacious enough and consequently the camp was held under a nee