( 1. ) IN this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution, the petitioner has challenged the orders passed against him for externment under the State security Act, 1990 (for short the Act of 1990), by District Magistrate, Rewa, and the appellate order of the Commissioner, Rewa Division, rejecting the appeal of the petitioner against the order of externment.

( 2. ) THE relevant facts briefly are that the Superintendent of Police, district Rewa (M. P.), submitted a report dated 31-10-2008 to the District magistrate, District Rewa, about the criminal activities of the petitioner. In the report, the Inspector of Hanumana Police Station, District Rewa, had given the details of the chain of criminal offences alleged to have been committed by the petitioner from 1995 to 2008 and had made a request that an externment order be passed against the petitioner in exercise of powers under Sections 3 and 4 of the Act of 1990. The District Magistrate then issued a notice dated 31-10-2008 to the petitioner to show cause why a proceeding for order of externment from district Rewa as also the districts touching the revenue limits of adjacent districts, namely, Sidhi, Shahdol, Satna, U