( 1 ) ON this Rule the District Magistrate of Nadia Mr. Debabrata Bandapadhyaya, I. A. S. , is standing his trial for contempt of Court, on the ground of forcibly turning out M. M. Roy, the learned Subordinate Judge, Nadia, from his residence at Circuit House and thereby compelling him to leave his station of justice and also making it impossible for him to holds his Court for four days and a half and bringing down the Judge in the estimation of the local public. The situation is unprecedented in the annals of public services in India. The facts and circumstances revealed on the record, are of momentous significance. Affidavits disclose most distressing and deplorable features in the administration, which will continue to serve as a serious warning and lesson long after the memory of this case fades away.

( 2 ) ON the 22nd January, 1964, by the order of this Magistrate the learned Subordinate Judge of the district was literally driven out of his room in the Circuit House at Nadia, where he was obliged to stay for acute want of accommodation in the district. At the relevant hour and the time the learned Judge was actually conducting a sessions case and performin