1. The present contempt proceedings against contemner, Arun Kshetrapal, District Magistrate, Rajnandgaon, arise out of his refusal to comply with this Court's order dated 1-8-1975 in a pending habeas corpus petition and as a consequence of a crash wireless message dated 6-8-1975 addressed by him to the Registrar of this Court in that connection.

2. A detenu, Vidhya Bhushan Thakur, has challenged the validity of his detention passed by the contemner under S.3(1)(a) of the Maintenance of Internal Security Act , 1971, in the habeas corpus petition (M. P. No. 700 of 1975) under Art.226 of the Constitution of India in which the contemner is a party as respondent No. 1. This Court vide its order dated 1-8-1975 in that petition had directed production of the detenu in Court on 8-8-1975 which was the date of hearing. But the contemner vide his crash wireless message dated 6-8-1975 addressed to the Advocate - General and a copy to the Registrar of this Court, expressed his inability to obey the order of this Court in view of the general order issued by the State Government under Sub-Sec. (2) of S.268 of the Code of Criminal Procedure , 1973, excluding any person or class of persons from the