( 1 ) THE short point that falls for determination in these four revision petitions is whether having regard to the provisions of Section 479-A (1), Criminal Procedure Code, it was obligatory on the Additional Sessions Judge to give the petitioners opportunity of being heard after recording a Ending contemplated by that Sub-clause and before making a complaint in writing for the offence of perjury under section 193, I. P. C.

( 2 ) THE petitioners were called as eye-witnesses (P. Ws. 1 to 4) in Sessions Case No. 19/62 in relation to the stab injuries inflicted on P. W. 1 and E. Venkataramana as a result of which Venkataiamana died on 2-11-1961. These witnesses before the committal Court as also before the Magistrate under Section 164, Cri. P. C. , deposed that they had actually witnessed the stabbing of the deceased, Venkataramana, by A. 1 and gave all other details of the occurrence. They deposed to the fact that P. W. 1 was stabbed by A. 2 and gave all further details in relation thereto. But when they were called as witnesses in the Sessions Court, they turned hostile to the prosecution and completely gave a go-by to the fact of their having witnessed the stabbing o