JUDGMENT

Choor Singh J:

This is an application under paras. (b) and (c) of s. 375 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 132) for a writ of habeas corpus.

The facts according to the applicant's affidavit, are that the applicant, who is a foreigner, was arrested in Singapore at his hotel by the police on 17 July 1969 at 3 a.m. without a warrant of arrest for an offence alleged to have been committed in Kuala Lumpur. He was produced before the ninth Magistrate's Court in Singapore on the same day and there he learnt that a warrant for his arrest purportedly issued by the Kuala Lumpur sessions Court had arrived in Singapore at 8.30 a.m. that day. It is alleged that a little later this warrant was endorsed by a Singapore Magistrate and that the said warrant bears no authentication of any shape or form. At 4 p.m. the same day the applicant was released on cash bail in the sum of $5,000 and the proceedings were adjourned until 3 p.m. the following day. On 18 July 1969 at 3 p.m. the applicant appeared in the ninth Magistrate's Court where the DPP made an application to the Court to order the return of the applicant to Malaysia under the provisions of s. 54 of the Criminal Procedure Code. T