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1681 HAVING proved to their own satisfaction and to the satisfaction of the country the power of the repressive measures, and especially the Defence of India Act, officers of a certain class are now busy providing an object lesson to the country as to the power of the ordinary law. We have already referred to the cases of Mr. Yakub Hassan and others in Madras and of Mr. Mazharni Haq and Babu Rajendra Prasad in Behar. Similar action has been taken in the United Provinces against Mr. Ranga Iyer and Babu Bans Gopal and in our own Province against Sardar Sardul Singh. The circumstances of these cases are different, but the two things common to them are that in these cases, the action of authority amounts to an interference with individual liberty and the freedom of the public, and that in all these cases, action has been taken under one or other section of the Criminal Procedure Code, which has long been in need of a revision. In the first, the sections resorted to are 144, 107 a ....