JUDGMENT

1. Mr. Niharendra Dutt Mazumdar, a Barrister of the Middle Temple, was enrolled under the Bar Councils Act, on January 11, 1933, and was admitted as an Advocate of this Court, his name being entered in the roll of Advocates entitled to appear and plead on the original side of the Court on January 17, 1933. It is his case that soon after his enrolment as aforesaid, he began to take a prominent part in Labour and Trade Union movements and became, as he says, an ''Honorary Trustee," some sort of a principal officer of a Trade Union of the labourers of the Port and Docks of Calcutta registered under the Indian Trade Unions Act of 1926, In 1934 between March 3 and December 2, he delivered a number of speeches at certain meetings of the Union held at public places. For three of the speeches, said to have been made on March 3, 4 and 18, respectively, proceedings u/s 107, Criminal Procedure Code, were taken against him and the Magistrate ordered him to be bound over to keep the peace for one year, and this order was affirmed by this Court on appeal. For three other speeches, made respectively on April 29, November 11, and December 2, the Magistrate convicted him in three separate c