Subba Rao, C. J.

[1] This is an application for committing the respondents for contempt of Court and to punish them in accordance with law.

[2] Respondent 1, Vijaravelu Chetty, is the President of the Kuppam Panchayat Board. On 20-8-1953, he sent a communication to the Superintendent, X Branch, Anti-corruption Madras, making allegations of corruption against Sri p Gopalakrishna District Munsif-cum-Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Kuppam Chittoor District. The communication contained the following allegations:

I have received certain information which I think it my imperative duty to pass on to you for necessary action. This information is in respect of the rampant corruption existing in the District Munsif-cum-Sub-Divisional Magistrate's Court, Kuppam.

The Magistrate is Sri P. Gopalakrishnan of Avidi of East Godavary District. He was first appointed as Additional District Munsif of Chittoor in November 1949. Even then his honesty was suspected.

He was messing in the Golden Cafe, Chittoor. He never paid the hotel bills. But he compensated the hotel keeper by decreeing a suit in his favour.

There was a batch of nearly dozen suits between the ryots and the inamdars of Mundlapudi. The