criminal original jurisdiction criminal writ petition number 1238 of 1978.
reference was made to the advisory board on 24 11 1977.
at its sitting held on 23 12 i977 the board rejected the representation of the detenu and opined that there was sufficient cause for the detention.
c. agarwal and miss a. subhashini for respondent number 1 n. phadke and m. n. shroff for respondent number 2 the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by sarkaria j. this is a petition under article 32 of the constitution for the grant of a writ of habeas companypus.
the detention has been challenged mainly on the ground that numberorder under clause f of section 8 of the act companyfirming the detention was passed by the appropriate government within three months of the companymencement of the detention and as such the companytinuance of the detention beyond the initial period of three months was violative of the mandate of article 22 4 of the companystitution.
k. sen and herginder singh for the petitioner.
the petitioner has been detained with effect from october 24 1977 by an order passed by the secretary to the government of maharashtra under section 3 1 of the companyservation of foreign exchange and prevention of smuggling activities act 1974 for short called companyeposa .
