( 1 ) THIS is a petition filed under section 526, Criminal Procedure Code by all the 8 accused in P. R. C. No. 1 of 1966 on the file of the Additional Munsif magistrate, Machilpatnam. They are all charged under section 302, Indian Penal code, for the murder of Avula Krishna in August, 1965, at Machilipatnam, and some, of them for other individual offences under sections 323, and 324, Indian Penal Code the petitioners applied for a transfer of the case from the file of the Additional munsif-Magistrate on two prior occasions. The Sessions Judge dismifted one suck application on 7th May, 1966, and the Additional Sessions Judge the other application on 28th September, 1966. It is not necessary to set out in any detail all the vicissitudes that this case has undergone. Suffice it to say that even though it is more than one-and-a-half years since the offence Was committed, the preliminary enquiry has not yet been allowed to commence. For a disposal of this application, it is enough to state the events subsequent to the second transfer application on 28th september, 1966.

( 2 ) P. W. 1, Merugu Jhon Meereiah, a senior Inspector of Co-operative Societies, machil patnam and P. W. 2 are said

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