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Thiruvadinatha Pillai and anr. Vs. the District Magistirats and ors.
Court: Kerala
Decided on: Dec-13-1950
Reported in: 1951CriLJ845
Kunhi Raman, C.J.1. These petns. are filed on behalf of Sri S. Thiruvadinatha Pillai & his younger brother Sri. S. Kolappa Pillai respectively who are described as partners carrying on business at Trivandrum as hardware merchants under the name and style of S. T. C. Thiruvadinatha Pillai & Brors. The prayer in each petn. is for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus directing reap. 3 who is the Superintendent of the Central Prison, Trivandrum, to set him at liberty. Respondent 1 is the Dist. Mag. of Trivandrum. Both the petnrs. are under detention under the Preventive Detention Act, IV 4. of 1950. The order directing such detention is alleged to have been passed under the Act by reap. 1, the Dist. Mag. of Trivandrum.2. Various grounds were alleged in support of the petns. but in the view we are taking of one of these grounds it is unnecessary to deal in detail with other grounds.3. The contention that appears to us to be well founded is that the detention cannot be supported since a copy...
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