JUDGMENT - A.D. MANE, J. :---A short but important question of public importance is involved in this revision application.

2. The petitioner has been convicted under section 224, Indian Penal Code, on a charge that he escaped from the custody of Police Sub-Inspector of City Chowk Police Station, Aurangabad, when he was lawfully detained for offences under sections 147, 148 and 326 read with 149, I.P.C. in C.R. No. 315 of 1988.

3. The petitioner challenged the order and judgment of his conviction and sentence for the said offence, made on 29-6-1989 by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad, in appeal. But the appeal came to be dismissed on 13-9-1990 against which the present revision application is filed.

4. The facts which are either admitted or not disputed are thus :

Crime at C.R. No. 315 of 1988 was registered for offences under sections 147, 148 and 326 read with 149, I.P.C., at City Chowk police station Aurangabad. The Police Sub-Inspector Daima was incharge of the investigation of the said offences. On February 7, 1989, P.S.I. Daima brought the petitioner to the police station for purpose of inquiry and interrogation. It is said that he could not complete interrogation as he

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