CHAKRAVARTTI, C. J.

( 1 ) BY an order made on 4-5-1954, P. B. Mukharji, J. and myself directed a Rule to issue on 'jalan and Co. ', ostensibly a firm of solicitors practising in this Court, requiring them to show cause why such, disciplinary action as the Court might deem fit and proper should not be taken against them for their failure to arrange for the defence of their clients, the appellants in Criminal Appeal No. 1 of 1954, and also for their failure to attend before the Court when the appeal was on the day's list for hearing. The circumstances in which the order was made were as follows:

( 2 ) ON 22-12-1953, three persons, named Ram Charitar Shaw, Ram Sunder Shaw and Anup Shaw respectively, were convicted by Sen J. in the Ordinary Original Criminal Jurisdiction of this Court of charges under Section 302, road with Section 34, Penal Code and duly sentenced, the first to death and each of the remaining two to transportation for life. On 9-1-1954, the convicted persons filed a joint appeal through Mr. s. N. Sen, a solicitor of this Court. On 15-1-1954, the appeal was admitted. On 24-3-1954, there was a change of attorneys and a fresh warrant from the Appellants was filed by Jal

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