VAZE, J.:- Does our law issue a tacit invitation to any spiteful or eccentric busybody, such as Mr. Frankland, in The Hound of the Baskervilles, to ransack the Statute-book, draw up for his own guidance a list of offences, and watch for breaches of them, sheltered by the assurance that his identity will never be revealed to his victims?.........................Few situations in life are more calculated to arouse resentment in a person than to be told that he has been traduced, but cannot be confronted with his traducer. Such was the querulous note struck by Prof. Hanbury writing in (1952) 68 Law Quarterly Review at 181, 182.

2. In the same strain Onkar Vithal Pawar, a building contractor, of 34/4 Kacharewadi, Erandawane, Pune 4, applied to the Court of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Pune, to issue witness summons to the Commissioner of Income-tax, Pune, for production of complaints relatable to the tax affairs of Pawar received by the Commissioner between December 1978 and January 1979 or during any other period whether anonymous or otherwise together with the enquiry papers.

3. Pawar was occupying some portion of 34/4 Kachare Wadi, Erandawane, and Sh