Judgment

SINHA, C.J.I. : By this petition under Art. 32 of the Constitution the petitioner raised almost the same controversy as had been done in Writ Petition No. 122 of 1958, which was heard and determined by this Court by its judgment dated December 12, 1958. (AIR 1959 SC 395, M. S. M. Sharma v. Sri Krishna Sinha), and by Writ Petition No. 106 of 1959, which was heard by this Court on November 10, 11 and 12, 1959, but which did not reach the stage of judgment by this Court, inasmuch as the petitioner s Advocates requested the Court to permit him to withdraw the petition and the Court allowed the prayer and permitted the petitioner to withdraw the petition. In each of these petitions the petitioner, who is a journalist by profession and is functioning as the Editor of "the Searchlight", an English daily newspaper published from Patna in the State of Bihar impugned the validity of the proceedings before the Committee of Previleges and prayed for restraining the opposite party, namely, the Chief Minister of Bihar as Chairman of the Committee of Previleges, Bihar Legislative Assembly, Committee of Privileges and the Secretary of the Bihar Legislative Assembly, from proceeding against