( 1 ) AFTER hearing the parties on merits, we passed an order on 27th January, 1969, to the following effect:

"having heard the parties, we are satisfied that this petition for grant of a writ of habeas corpus under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, must be allowed. We hereby set aside the order issued by the Secretary to Government of Madhya Pra-desh, Jail Department, bearing No. 1090/ 342/iii-Jail, dated Bhopal, the 3rd May 1967, cancelling the petitioner's conditional release on a licence issued under Section 2 of the Madhya pradesh Prisoners Release on Probation Act, 1954. We accordingly direct the State of Madhya Pradesh, and, in particular, the Superintendent of the Central Jail, Jabalpur, where the petitioner is being detained, to serve him with the original licence of conditional release already issued by the State Govern-ment in Form 'd' under Rule 7 of the Madhya Pradesh Prisoners Release on Probation Rules, 1964, and to afford him every facility to comply with the conditions imposed thereby and to fulfil all other legal requirements and thereafter to release him forthwith in terms of the licence, from the prison where he is being detained. The reasons for