GAJENDRAGADKAR, J. :- This is an application for a certificate under Art. 134(1)(c) of the Constitution of India. The petitioner was prosecuted in the Court of the Presidency Magistrate, 19th Court, Bombay, for offences under S. 18(1) and S. 19(2), Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging Houses Rates Control Act (Bom Act LVII (57) of 1947). At the trial a charge was framed against him under bath the aforesaid sections. The learned Magistrate held that on the facts proved the petitioner was guilty of the offence under S. 19(2) of the said Act. He accordingly convicted him of the said offence and sentenced him to undergo simple imprisonment for a day and to pay a fine of Rs. 30,000. In default he was ordered to undergo simple imprisonment for sis weeks. Against this order of conviction and sentence the petitioner preferred an appeal to this Court, but the said appeal was summarily dismissed on 20th February 1950. The petitioner now wants a certificate under Art. 134(1)(c) that his case is a fit one for appeal to the Supreme Court.

2. The facts alleged against the accused are not disputed before us, but it is argued by Mr. Dalai that the question which he proposes to raise in his appe