( 1 ) THE seven complaints out of which these seven Revision Cases arise were registered as seven cases in the court of the Chief Presidency Magistrate of Calcutta, but were tried together and were governed by the same judgment. Here in this court also the seven cases were heard together as the same questions of law are involved in all of them. Madan Gopal Dey and his wife Sm. Anjali Dey are the two petitioners in Criminal Revision Cases Nos. 637 to 640 while T. Dey and Co. (P) Ltd. is the petitioner in Criminal Revision Cases Nos. 641, 642 and 643 of 1964.

( 2 ) THE petitioners in both sets of cases obtained the present Rules against their conviction under Sections 162 (1), 168, 220 (3) and 210 (5) of the Indian Companies Act 1956 and the sentence of a fine of Rs. 50 on each count passed on each of them thereunder, Madan Gopal Dey and Sm. Anjali Dey were sentenced to suffer simple imprisonment for 14 days each in default of payment of fine and half of the fine imposed in all these cases was directed to be paid to the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, if realised, as cost.

( 3 ) T. Dey and Co. (Private) Limited was incorporated on December 12, 1960 and Madan