(1.) THIS and the other petitions, 28 in the number, have been filed by the respective petitioners against the orders of detention passed against them on various dates after the 25th of June, 1975. Except in Petition No. 138 of 1975, no counsel appeared. However, out of the petitioners, three of them, namely, Shilkumar Nigam, M. D. Chandwaskar and U. C. Porwal, happen to be lawyers and all the petitioners who were present in person submitted that they have nothing further to argue except what has been submitted by the three petitioners named above in connection with their own petitions.
(2.) BROADLY speaking, the orders of detention of all those petitioners can be categorized into three categories :
(3.) IN all these petitions, preliminary objections have been raised on behalf of the State Government, and they are :