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Earliest opportunity, The word 'earliest' in s. 13 of the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 which qualifies the opportunity must equally qualify the corresponding obligation of the State to deal with the representation, if and when made, as expeditiously as possible. The opportunity con-templated by the section is the opportunity to make a representation against the detention order to the Government and therefore ex hypothesi soon after the person is deprived of his personal liberty he must be afforded the earliest opportunity to make a representation, Vijay Kumar v. State of Jammu & Kashmir, (1982) 2 SCC 43: AIR 1982 SC 1023: (1982) 3 SCR 522. (J&K Public Safety Act, 1978, s. 13)