( 1 ) THIS is an application in revision by one Pramath Nath Harabab for setting aside the order of the Magistrate of Uluberia dated 12th April 1950.

( 2 ) THE applicant was convicted under Section 465/ 110, Penal Code, for having abetted forgery of a document. The document in question is a petition for withdrawal filed before the Appellate Officer Uluberia under the Bengal Agricultural Debtors Act.

( 3 ) THERE was another co-accused by the name of Suchandra Kumar Samanta. He was charged under Section 465 Penal Code, for having forged that particular document. Suchandra has been acquitted by the Sessions Judge.

( 4 ) TWO main points have been argued before us on behalf of the applicant. One is that the offence disclosed is not one of forgery and the other is that in any event there is no abetment of such offence with which the applicant has been charged. It is necessary to set out here at the outset the charge against the applicant. The charge was that on 4th May 1948 the applicant intentionally aided Suchandra in forging the withdrawal petition which was filed in the Court of the Appellate Officer Uluberia in Case No. A/40 of 1945-46 under the Bengal Agricul