(1.) H.C.P. No. 499 of 1997 has been filed by one Bhagavat Singh, a Law graduate who was undergoing apprenticeship, to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of a writ of habeas corpus or any other appropriate writ, order of direction :-
(2.) This Court, on 27-5-1997 passed the following order :
(3.) When the matter came up before us, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondents 1 and 2 and Mr. P. Rajamanickam, learned Special Public Prosecutor appearing on behalf of the third respondent brought to our notice the above order and submitted that these habeas corpus petitions are not maintainable. Hence, we heard the arguments on all the sides regarding the maintainability of these petitions.