( 1 ) THESE two revision cases arise out of the orders of the Sessions Judge, adilabad, under section 494, Criminal Procedure Code, on his refusal to accord permission to the proposed withdrawal by the Public Prosecutor from prosecutions pending before him. It appears that in the first case which forms the subject-matter, of Sessions Case No. 9 of 1961, in all 29 accused are involved while in the second case the subject-matter of S. C. No. 8 of 1961, 31 accused are facing trial. A perusal of the charge-sheet and the committal order will indicate that the offences with which the accused were charged are of sufficiently grave nature, viz. , rioting armed with deadly weapons, attempt to commit murder, dacoity, voluntarily causing hurt and grievous hurt etc. , under sections 147, 148, 149, 307, 324 and 395, Indian Penal Code. In the other case, equally grave allegations are made. Both the offences are alleged to have been committed on the same date, viz. , 27th December, 1959.

( 2 ) BRIEFLY, the allegations are that, on the date of incident one worker who was suffering from epilepsy was drowned in a cistern in bungalow No. 5 occupied by one of the officers in the Sirsilk colony. Taking

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