1. Mr. R.N. Pandey, Senior Inspector of Local Bodies, inspected the Buxar Municipal Office. On the 19th November 1955, he prepared a report in which he stated that several cases of suspected misappropriation and embezzlement against Nawab Chand Lai had come to his notice. He also referred to the Vice-Chairmans inspection note in which several other cases of misappropriation by Nawab Chand Lal were mentioned. He thought that the matter should be inquired into by the police and he accordingly recommended that that should be done. He sent a copy of this report to the sub-inspector of police at Buxar, to the District Magistrate of Shahabad at Arrah and to the Superintendent of Police of Shahabad at Arrah. Mr. Chatterji, who has appeared before us on behalf of the petitioner, has stated that a copy of this report was sent to the Sub-Divisional Magistrate also. After completing investigation, the police submitted charge-sheet. Thereupon, two tax-daro-gas, namely, Nawab Chand Lal and All Akbar were put upon their trial for offences under Sec. 409 of the Penal Code. As these misappropriations were alleged to have been committed in the course of several years, five different cases w