Chief Presidency Magistrate had no power to issue the warrant of arrest in the manner, he had done, a manner which in his view was "unknown to the Code of Criminal Procedure", since the Fugitive Offenders Act, 18 8 1, had ceased, on the coming into force of the Constitution, to be part of the law of India and could not on that account be resorted to for obtaining extradition if offenders from another country; that the instructions issued by the Government of India by letter No. 3516 J dated June 14, 1955, laying down the procedure to the followed by the courts for securing extradition 'of offenders from the Commonwealth countries should have been ignored by the Chief Presidency Magistrate, and that the 34 of 1962 did not authorise the Chief Presidency Magistrate to issue a warrant and to send it to the Secretary, Home (Political) Department, Government of West Bengal; that there "was no legal basis for the requisition made by the Central Government to Hong Kong" for extradition or surrender of More or for the issue of the warrant by the Chief ' Presidency Magistrate; and that the demand made by the Government of India to the Government of Hong Kong by making a requisition to Hong Kong for the arrest of More "was not a political act beyond the purview of law and judicial scrutiny" and being inconsistent with the law was liable to be rectified.