Summarize the following court judgment. iminal Appeal No. 14 of 1972. Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated August 11	 1971 of the Bombay High Court in Crl. Application No. 618 of 1971. section B. Wad	 for the appellant. M. C. Bhandare and B. D. Sharma	 for the respondents. The Judgment of the Court was delivered by CHANDRACHUD J. This appeal by special leave is directed against the judgment dated August 11	 1971 of the High Court at Bombay	 dismissing the petition filed by the appellant under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution to challenge an order of externment passed by the 1st respondent. On October 9	 1969 a notice of even date was served on the appellant under section 59 of the Bombay Police Act	 22 of 1951	 asking him to appear before the Assistant Commissioner of Police	 'M ' Division	 Bombay	 in answer to allegations contained in the notice. Briefly	 the allegations were that the appellant 's_acts and movements were causing harm	 6 L63lSup. CI/73 66 alarm and danger to the residents of certain localities within the	 jurisdiction of Vile Parle Police Station	 that he was given to assaulting the residents of those localities either because	 they were suspected to be	 police informants or because they failed to accede to the demands of money	 that he had committed robberies in the particular localities	 that since March 1969 he had committed several acts of the above description and that witnesses were not willing to come forward to depose against him in public. The appellant appeared before the Assistant Commissioner of Police	 offered his explanation and examined 16. witnesses to refute the	 allegations. He contended that the allegations were vague and general	 that they were made at the instance of one Damayanti Deshpande who was inimical to him	 that he was a social worker of some standing	 that he was	 a member of the Congress Party and that in two criminal cases which were filed against him he was acquitted in spite of the evidence led by the prosecution. Later	 the appellant was heard by Shri G. K. Nadkarni	 Deputy Commissioner of Police	 Zone IV	 Greater Bombay. On a consideration of the explanation and the evidence tendered by the appellant	 the Dy. Commissioner passed an order dated July 23	 1970 under section 59 of the Act	 externing him from the limits of Greater Bombay and the District of Thana	 for a period of two years. The order of externment was directed to take effect within two days of the decision of two criminal cases which were then pending against the appellant and in case he was sentenced in the aforesaid cases to a term of imprisonment	 the order was to take effect within two days from the date of his release from jail. Against that order	 the appellant filed an appeal under section 60 of the Act	 to the 2nd respondent	 the Government of Maharashtra	 but that appeal was dismissed on May 20	 1971	 have with the modification that the externment was to be effective from May 31	 1971. The appellant then filed a petition in the Bombay High Court under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution to challenge the order of externment. Two contentions were made in the High Court on behalf of the appellant : one	 that the allegations contained in the show cause notice where	 too vague to afford him a reasonable opportunity to defend himself and two	that his activities were at best confined to specific localities withinthe jurisdiction of the Vile Parle police station and thereforethe order asking him to remove himself from the limits of the Districts of Greater Bombay and Thana was excessive and unreasonable. On the first contention	 reliance was placed by the appellant on the judgment dated April 29	 1971 of a Division bench of the Bombay High Court in Criminal Application No. 67 332 of .1971	 in which a similar notice was stuck down on the ground of vagueness. The learned Judges declined to follow that judgment as	 in their opinion	 it was inconsistent with the view taken by this Court in State of Gujarat and Anr. vs Meliboob Khan Usman Khan etc.(1). On the second contention	 distinguishing the judgment of a Division Bench of the High Court in Balu Shivling Dombe vs The Divisional Magistrate	 Pandharpur (71 Bombay Law Reported 79) and following a judgment dated March 17	 1968 of another Division Bench in Criminal Application No. 1427 of 1966	 the Iearned Judges held that in the circumstances of the case it was reasonable to extern the appellant from the Emits of Greater Bombay as also of the Thana District. The correctness of this view is under challenge before US. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the appellant has raised the following points : (i) The allegation that witnesses were not willing to come forward to depose against the appellant in public is falsified by the very record of the present proceedings. (ii)The particulars contained in the notice issued under section 59 of the Act are so vague that the appellant could not possibly meet the allegations made against him and thus he was denied reasonable opportunity to defend himself. (iii)The externing authority must pass a reasoned order or else the right of appeal would become illusory. (iv)The State Government also ought to have given reasons in support of the order dismissing the appeal. Its failure to state reasons show non application of mind	 and (v) The order of externment imposes unreasonable restrictions on the personal liberty of the appellant in that	 whereas his activities are alleged to be restricted to an area within the jurisdiction of the Vile Parle police station	 the order of externment not only extends to the Whole District of Greater Bombay but to the District of Thana also. Regarding the first point	 it is urged that in Criminal Cases No. 2106/P of 1969 and 2337/P of 1969 which were filed (1) ; 68 against the appellant in the court of the learned Presidency Magistrate	 22nd Court	 Andheri	 Bombay	 five witnesses were examined by the persecution in each case thereby falsifying the. assertion that witnesses were not willing to come forward to depose against the appellant in public. We cannot accept this contention. No connection is shown to exist between the two particular criminal cases and the incidents referred to in the externment order. Counsel attempted to establish that connection by saying that Damayanti Deshpande who was inmical to the appellant was the motive force behind the prosecution as well as the externment proceedings. But the	 affidavit of the Deputy Commissioner has specifically denied that allegation. Besides	 as held by this Court in Bhagubhai Dullabhabhai Bhandari vs The District Magistrate	 Thana & Ors. (1)	 though	 in order to attract the operation of section 56 of the Act	 the officer concerned has to satisfy himself that witnesses are not willing to come forward to give evidence in public	 it is not necessary that all the witnesses must be found thus unwilling to give evidence. The circumstance therefore that in the two criminal cases certain witnesses came forward to depose against the appellant in public cannot falsify the assertion that witnesses were unwilling to give evidence against the appellant in public. On the second point	 it is necessary to call attention to the notice issued to the appellant	 which was in these terms : "NOTICE UNDER SECTION 59 OF THE BOMBAY POLICE ACT	 1961 Name	 address and age : Shri Pandharinath Shridhar Rangnekar	 Hindu	 28 years	 Res. Rama Niwas	 Nariman Road	 Vile Parle (East)	 Bombay 57. Under Section 59 of the Bombay Police Act	 1951 (Bom. XXIII of 1951) you are hereby informed that the following allegations are made against you in proceedings against you under section 56 of the said Act. In order to give you opportunity of tendering your explanation regarding the said allegations	 I have appointed 9 A.M. on 16 10 1969 to receive your explanation and to hear you and your witness	 if any	 in regard to the said allegations I Shri N. section Joshi	 Assistant Commissioner of Police 'M ' Division	 Bombay therefore require you to appear before me at Vile Parl e Police Station on the said date viz. 16 10 1969 at 9 A.M. for the said purpose and to pass a bond in the (1) ; the 69 sum of Rs. 5001 for your attendance 'during the enquiry of the said proceedings. Should you fail to appear before me and to pass the bond as directed above	 I shall proceed with the enquiry in your absence. Take note. Allegations: 1.Since March 1969 in the localities of Nehru Road	 Azad Road	 Monghibai Road	 Mahatma Gandhi Road	 Ram Mandir Road and the areas adjoining thereto in the jurisdiction of Vile Parle Police Station	 Great of Bombay your acts and movements are causing harm	 alarm and danger to the residents of the aforesaid localities 'and areas. 2.That you assault the residents of the aforesaid localities and areas either suspecting them of giving information to the police about your illegal activities or because they fail accede to your demand of money which offences are punishable under chapter XVI of. the Indian Penal Code. 3.That you commit robberies by extorting money and articles from the residents of the aforesaid localities and areas by means of assault and/or under threats of assault which are offences punishable under chapter XVII of the Indian Penal Code. 4.That since March		 1969	 you have committed several acts of the matter described in paras 1	 2 and 3 above. 5.That the witnesses to your above described acts and movements are not willing to come forward and depose against you in public by reason of apprehension on their part as regards the safety of their persons in that they apprehend danger to the safety of their person or property	 if they do so. Sd/ 9 10 1969 N. section Joshi	 Assistant Commissioner of Police 'N ' Division	 Bandra	 Bombay. " Section 56 of the Act provides	 to the extent material	 that whenever it shall appear in Greater Bombay to the Commissioner (a) that the movements or acts of any person are causing or are calculated to cause alarm	 danger or harm to person or property	 or (b) that there are reasonable grounds for believing that such person is engaged or is about to be engaged in the commission 70 of an offence involving force or violence or an offence punishable under Chapter XII	 XVI or XVII of the Indian Penal Code	 and when in the opinion of such officer witnesses are not willing to come forward to give evidence in public against such person by reason of apprehension on their part as regards the safety of their person or property	 the said officer may by order in writing direct such person to remove himself outside the area within the local limits of his jurisdiction or such area and any district or districts	 or any part thereof contiguous thereto	 within such time as the said officer may prescribe and not to enter or return to the said area from which he was directed to remove himself. .Under section 58	 an order of externment passed under section 56 can in no case exceed a period of two years from the date on which it was made. The relevant part of section 59(1) provides that before an order under section 56 is passed against any person	 the officer shall inform that person in writing "of the general nature of the material allegations against him and give him a reasonable opportunity of tendering an explanation regarding those allegations. The proposed externee is entitled to lead evidence unless the authority takes the view that the application for examination of witnesses is made for the purpose of vexation or delay. Section 59 also confers on the person concerned a right to file a written statement and to appear through an advocate or attorney. These provisions show that the reasons which necessitate or justify the passing of an externment order arise out of extraordinary circumstances. An order of externment can be passed under clause (a) or (b) of section 56 if	 and only if	 the authority concerned is satisfied that witnesses are unwilling to come forward to give evidence in public against the proposed externee by reason of apprehension on their part as regards the safety of their person or property. A full and complete disclosure of particulars such as is requisite in an open prosecution will frustrate the very purpose of an externment proceeding. If the show cause notice were to furnish to the proposed externee concrete data like specific dates of incidents or the names of persons involved in these incidents	 it would be easy enough to fix the identity of those who out of fear of injury to their person or property are unwilling to depose in public. There is a brand of lawless element in society which it is impossible to bring to book by established methods of judicial trial because in such trials there can be no conviction without legal evidence. And Illegal evidence is impossible to obtain	 because out of fear of reprisals witnesses are unwilling to depose in public	 That explains why section 59 of the Act imposes but a limited obligation on the authorities to inform the proposed externee "of the general nature of the material allegations against him". That obligation fixes 71 the limits of the co relative right of the proposed externee. He is entitled	 before an order of externment is passed under section 56	 to know the material allegations against him and the general nature of those allegations. He is not entitled to be informed of specific particulars relating to the material allegations. It is true that the provisions of section 56 make a serious inroad on personal liberty but such restraints have to be suffered in the larger interests of society. This Court in Gurbachan Singh vs The State of Bombay and Another(1) had upheld the validity of section 27(1) of the City of Bombay Policy Act	 1902	 which corresponds to section 38 of the Act. Following that decision	 the challenge to the constitutionality of section 56 was repelled in Bhagubhai Dullabhabhai Bhandari vs The District Magistrate	 Thana & Others (2 ). We will only add that care must be taken to ensure that the terms of sections 56 and 59 are strictly complied with and that the slender safeguards Which those provisions offer are made available to the proposed externee. In Hari Khemu Gawali V. The Deputy Commissioner of Police	 Bombay and Another(3)	 in which an order of externment was passed under section 57 of the Act	 it was held by this Court on an examination of the general scheme of the Act that the provisions of sections 55	 56	 57 and 59 cannot be held to be invalid on the grounds that only the general nature of the material allegations is required to be disclosed to the externee	 and 	that it would be difficult for him to get the matter judicially examined. Sinha J.	 speaking for the majority	 observed: "The grounds available to an externee had necessarily to be very limited in their scope because if evidence were available which could be adduced in public	 such a person could be dealt with under the preventive sections of the Code of Criminal Procedure	 for example	 under section 107 or section 110. But the special provisions now under examination proceed on the basis that the person dealt with under any of the sections 55	 56 or 57 is of such a character as not to permit the ordinary laws of the land being put in motion in the ordinary way mainly of examining witnesses in open court who should be cross examined by the party against whom they were deposing. ' The provisions we are now examining are plainly intended to be used in special cases requiring special treatment	 that is	 cases which cannot be dealt with under the preventive sections of the Code of Criminal Procedure." (1) ; (2) ; (3) ; 72 In State of Gujarat and Anr. etc. vs Mehboob Khan Usman Khan etc. (1) this Court	 reversing the judgment of the High Court of Gujarat	 rejected the argument that a notice substantially similar to the one in the instant case was bad for vagueness. It was held that the person proposed to be extend was entitled to be informed of the general nature of the material allegations and not to the particulars of those allegations. As to the meaning of the phrase "general nature of the material allegations"	 it was observed : "Without attempting to be exhaustive we may state that when a person is stated to be a 'thief	 that allegation is vague. Again	 when it is said that 'A ' stole a watch from X on a particular day and at a particular place '	 tie allegation can be said to be particular. Again	 when it is stated that ' X is seen at crowded bus stands and he picks pockets ' it is of a general nature of a material allegation. Under the last illustration	 given above	 will come the allegations	 which	 according to the Gujarat High Court	 suffer from being too general	 or vague. Considering it from the point of view of the party against whom an order of externment is proposed to be passed	 it must be emphasised that when he has to tender an explanation to a notice	 under section 59	 he can only give an explanation	 which can be of a general nature. It may be open to him to take a defence	 of the action being taken	 due to mala fides	 malice or mistaken identity	 or he may be able to tender proof of his general good conduct	 or alibi	 during the period covered by the notice and the like. " We must therefore reject the argument that the particulars contained in the notice are vague. We endorse the view of the High Court that Criminal Application No. 332 of 1971 in which judgment was delivered on April 29	 1971 by another Division Bench of that court was not correctly decided	 to the extent to which the notice therein was held to be vague. The view taken in that case is inconsistent with the view expressed by this Court in Mehboob Khan 's case. The third and fourth point have the same answer as the second point just dealt with by us. Precisely for the reasons for which the proposed externee is only entitled to be informed of the general nature of the material allegations	 neither the externing authority nor the State Government in appeal can be asked to write a reasoned order in the nature of a judgment. If those authorities were to discuss the evidence in the case	 it would be easy to fix the identity of witnesses who were unwilling to depose in (1) ; 73 public against the proposed externee. A reasoned order con taining a discussion of the evidence led against the externee would probably spark off another round of tyranny and harassment. As regards the last point	 it is primarily for the externing	 authority to decide how best the externment order can be made effective	 so as to subserve its real purpose. Now long	 within the statutory limit of 2 years fixed by section 58	 the order shall operate and to what territories	 within the statutory limitations of section 56 it should extend	 are matters which must depend for their decision on the nature of the data which the authority is able 	to collect in the externment proceedings. There are cases and cases and therefore no general formulation can be made that the order of externment must always be restricted to the area to which the illegal activities of the externee extend. A larger area may conceivably have to be comprised within the externment order so as to isolate the externee from his moorings. An excessive order can undoubtedly be struck down because no greater restraint on personal liberty can be permitted that is reasonable in the circumstances of the case. The decision of the Bombay High Court in Balu Shivling Dombe vs The Divisional Magistrate	 Pandharpur (71 Bombay Law Reporter 79) is an instance in point where an externment order was set aside on the ground that it was far wider than was justified by the exigencies of the case. The activities of the externee therein were confined to the city of Pandharpur and yet the externment order covered an area as extensive as the districts of Sholapur	 Satara and Poona. These areas are far widely removed from the locality in which the externee had committed but two supposedly illegal acts. The exercise of the power was therefore arbitrary and excessive	 the order having been passed without reference to the purpose of the externment. But Balu Shivling 's case furnishes no analogy in the instant matter. A vast city like Bombay presents its own peculiar problems of law and order. It has an ever growing industrial complex and the city has spread its areas far and wide. A fair proportion of its teeming population is	 mobile	 with large multitudes streaming in and out of the city in the pursuit of their daily avocations. An order of externment restricted to the particular area chosen by the externee for his unlawful activities and to a small periphery thereof would in such circumstances fail of its true purpose. It would be impossible to secure obedience to such an order and its enforcement would raise practical problems which would impair the efficacy of the order. An order in the instant case if restricted	 say	 to the areas within the jurisdiction of the Vile Parle police station and its periphery would not serve its purpose. Rather than solving a problem of law and order	 it would create yet one more. 74 That is why	 on similar facts	 the Bombay High Court has consistently repelled challenges made to externment orders on the ground that they extended not only to the district of Greater Bombay but to the district of Thana as well. In Criminal Application No. 1427 of 1968 a Division Bench (Kotval C. J. and Kamat J.) observed in their judgment of March 17	 1968 : "In the present case the area of activity of the externee was undoubtedly stated to be Santacruz	 but Santacruz is a fairly wide area. Moreover	 it is very intimately connected with the surrounding area of Thana district. It is common knowledge that Thana town in the surrounding area is also an area where large industries have grown contiguous with the industrial area of Greater Bombay and that the entire industrial area is connected together by several means of communication Including suburban trains of which there are several during each day		 by taxis plying to and from Greater Bombay and by bus services operating between Greater Bombay and several parts of Thana District. Therefore	 the Police could reasonably have thought that it would not be sufficient to ask the petitioner to keep off only from the area of Greater Bombay which has an equally busy and highly industrialised area contiguous to it. Therefore	 the order was extended to Thana District. " A similar view taken by Palekar and Gatne JJ. in Criminal Applications 30 and 93 of 1970 decided on February 23	 1970 by Tulzapurkar J. in 73 Bombay Law Reporter 442 at pp. 453 454 and by Bhasme and Kania JJ. in Criminal Application No. 149 of 1972 decided on March 3	 1972. As against the judgment last mentioned the externee had filed special leave petition No. 487 of 1972 in this Court	 one of the grounds stated therein being that the externment order was void because the externee was asked to remove himself not only out of the district of Greater Bombay but from the limits of Thana district as will. The petition was dismissed by this Court (Palekar and Dwivedi JJ.) on September 20	 1972. These judgments of the Bombay High Court have taken the view that the districts of Greater Bombay and Thana form	 so to say	 a single unit. Palekar J. observes in his judgment in Criminal Applications Nos. 30 and 93 of 1970 : "It may be that the area of operation may be in a particular locality	 but if the externment is limited only to that area	 then it might be impossible to prevent the externee from visiting that area every day. Any part in Bombay is easily connected by transport with any other part of Greater Bombay and also the Thana District	 and if	 for example	 'an externee is externed outside the limits of Greater Bombay	 then he should not take more than 15 minutes 'to reach Kurla 75 from a Place like Thana if the latter is excluded from externment. The very object of externment is to make it as difficult as possible to the externee to return to the field of his activities. " Tulzapurkar J. expressed the same view by saying that "the contiguous area of Thana district is intimately connected with the industrial area of Greater Bombay with cheaper and quicker means of transport and communication." According to Bhasme J. who delivered the judgment of the Bench in Criminal Application No. 149 of 1972	 "By reason of the means of communication and proximity	 the districts of Greater Bombay and Thana are for all practical purposes one local area or one district. " Deshmukh J. in the _judgment under appeal	 says that "Greater Bombay and Thana districts are . intimately connected by Several communications". In matters of local colour and conditions the view so consistently expressed by the learned Judges of the High Court must	 in our opinion	 be accepted as correct. In the result the appeal fails and is dismissed. K.B.N. Appeal dismissed.

Section 56 of the Bombay Police Act provides that whenever it shall appear	 in Greater Bombay	 to the Commissioner (a) that the movements or acts of any person are causing or are calculated to cause alarm	 danger or harm to person or property or (b) that there are reasonable grounds for believing that such person is engaged or is about to be engaged in the commission of offence involving force or violence or an offence punishable under Chapter 22	 16 and 17 of the Indian Penal Code	 and when in the opinion of such officer witnesses are not willing to come forward to give evidence in public against such person by reason of apprehension on their part as regards safety of their person or property	 the said officer may by order in writing direct such person to remove himself outside the area districts	 or any part thereof contiguous thereto	 within such time as the said officer may prescribe and not to enter or return to the said area	 from which he was directed to remove himself. Section 59(1) requires that before an order under section 56 is passed against any person the officer shall inform that person in writing "of the general nature of the material allegations against him" and give him a reasonable opportunity of tendering an explanation regarding those allegations. The appellant was served with a notice under section 56 of the Act. The allegations were that the appellant 's acts and movements were causing alarm and danger to the residents of certain localities within the jurisdiction of Vile Parle Police Station	 that he was given to assaulting the resi dents of the localities either because they were suspected to be police informants or because they failed to accede to the demands of money	 that he had committed robberies in the particular localities	 and that witnesses were not willing to come forward to depose against him in public. The appellant offered his explanation and examined his witnesses to refute the allegations. On a consideration of the explanation and the evidence tendered by the appellant an order was passed externing him from the limits of Greater Bombay and the District of Thana for a period of two years. The order was confirmed in appeal by the State government. A writ petition to the High Court was dismissed. in the appeal to this Court it was contended (i) the allegations that witnesses were not willing to come forward to depose against the appellant in public was falsified by the very record of the present proceedings; (ii) the particulars contained in the notice issued under section 59 of the Act were so vague that the appellant could not possibly meet the allegations made against him and thus he was denied reasonable opportunity to defend himself; (iii) the extern ing authority had the duty to pass a reasoned order or else the right of appeal would become illusory; and the State Government also ought to have given reasons in support of the order dismissing the appeal and its failure to do so showed non application of mind; and (iv) the order of 64 externment imposed unreasonable restrictions on the personal liberty of the appellant in that	 whereas his activities were alleged to be restricted to an area within the jurisdiction of the Vile Parle police station	 the order of externment not only extended to the whole district of Greater Bombay but to the district of Thana also. Dismissing the appeal	 HELD (1) In order to attract the operation of section 56 of the Act the officer concerned has to satisfy himself that witnesses are not willing to come forward to give evidence in public. 	 But it is not necessary that all the witnesses must be found unwilling to give evidence. The circumstance	 therefore	 that in two criminal cases certain witnesses came forward to depose against the appellant cannot falsify the assertion that witnesses were unwilling to give evidence against the appellant to public. [68C] Dhagubhai Dullabhabhai Bhandari vs The District Magistrate	 Thana & Ors. ; 	 referred to. 	 (2)The relevant provisions of the Act show that the reasons which necessitate or justify the passing of an externment order arise out of extraordinary circumstances. An order of externment can be passed under Clause (a) or (b) or selection 56 if	 and only if	 the authority concerned is satisfied that witnesses are unwilling to come forward to give evidence in public against the proposed extend by reason of apprehension on their part as regards the safety of their person or property. A full and complete disclosure of particulars such as is requisite in an open prosecution will frustrate the very purpose of externment proceedings. There is a brand of lawless element in society which it is impossible to bring to book by established methods of judicial trial	 because	 in such trials	 there can be no conviction without legal evidence. And	 legal evidence is impossible to obtain because out of fear of reprisals witnesses are unwilling to depose in public. That explains why section 59 of the Act imposes but a limited obligation on the authorities to inform the proposed externee "of the general nature of the material allegations against him". That obligation fixes the limits of the correlative right of the proposed externee. He is entitled before an order of externment is passed under section 56 to know the material allegations against him and the general nature of those allegations. He is not entitled to be informed of specific particulars relating to the material allegations. Though the provisions of section 56 make a serious inroad on personal liberty	 such restraints have to be suffered in the larger interests of society. However	 care must be taken to ensure that the terms of sections 56 and 59 are strictly complied with and that the slender safeguards which those provisions offer are made available to the proposed externee. [70E] Gurbachan Singh vs The State of Bombay and another; 	 ; Bhagubhai Dullabhabhai Bhdndari vs The District Magistrate Thana & others ; ; Hari Khemu Gawali vs The Deputy Commissioner of Police	 Bombay and Another ; and State of Gujarat and Anr. vs Mehboob Khan Usman Khan etc. [1968] 3 S.C.R. View of the Bombay High Court in Criminal application No. 332 of 1971 in judgment dated April 29	 1971 disapproved. 65 (3)Precisely for the reason for which the proposed externee is only entitled to be informed of the general nature of the material allegations	 neither the externing authority nor the State government in appeal can be asked to write a reasoned order in the nature of a judgment. If those authorities were to discuss the evidence in the case it would be easy to fix the identity of the witnesses who were unwilling to depose in public against the proposed externee. [72H] (4)It is primarily for the externing authority to decide how best the externment order can be made effective so as to subserve its real purpose An excessive order can undoubtedly be struck down because no greater restraint on personal liberty can be premitted than is reasonable in the circumstances of the case. An order of externment restricted to the particular area chosen by the externee for his unlawful activities and to a small periphery thereof may in certain circumstances fail of its true purpose. A larger area may conceivably have to be comprised within the externment order so as to isolate the externee from his moorings. [73 B	 D] Balu Shivling Dombe vs The Divisional Magistrate	 Pandharpur section 71 Bombay Law Reporter	 79	 held inapplicable. The High Court of Bombay has	 on similar facts	 consistently repelled challenges made to externment orders on the ground that they extended not only to the district of Greater Bombay but also to the District of Thana. In matters of such local colour and conditions	 the view so consistently expressed by the learned judges of the High Court must be accepted as correct. [75C] Criminal Application No. 1427 of 1968	 judgment dated March 17	 1968; Criminal Application 30 to 93 of 1970 judgment dated February 23	 1970	 73 Bombay L.R. 442; Criminal Application No. 149 of 1972 decided on March 3	 1972	 referred to.