1. These are eight writ petitions for quashing the orders of detention of eight detenus under the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") and for a writ of habeas corpus directing the respondents to produce the detenus before the Court and to set them free. The facts averred and the grounds raised in them are substantially the same. I shall therefore consider first the common features in the Writ Petition No. 92/80 which is the first of these Writ Petitions and thereafter the additional contentions raised in the remaining petitions.

2. Shortly stated the case of the petitioner in Writ Petition No. 92/80 is as under : -
On 29th March, 1980 the Administrator of Goa, Daman and Diu ("The Administrator" for brevity's sake) after being satisfied that with a view to preventing the detenu from smuggling goods and abetting the smuggling of goods and engaging in transporting smuggled goods, it was necessary to place Vasant Shantaram Bagkar (hereinafter referred to as "the detenu") under preventive detention, directed, in exercise of the powers conferred on him under S.3 (1) of the Act, that he be detained at Ce