JUDGMENT

William Comer Petheram, C.J. - The Maharajah of Nattore and Rani Hemanta Kumari Devi are the owners of forests in the Sub-Division of Tangail, which adjoin each other, and there have been for a long time disputes between them, and the persons who claim under them, as to the boundary line between their properties, which have from time to time led to the institution of criminal proceedings. On the 27th November 1893, Abdul Baki Miah, a servant of the Maharajah, laid a complaint before Babu Shib Chunder Nag, Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Tangail, charging the petitioners, who are tenants and servants of the Rani, with having, on the 25th and 26th of the same month, been guilty of the offences of rioting, criminal trespass, mischief and theft. The complainant was examined on oath before the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, who on the same day made an order that there were questions of right of all sorts connected with the disputes, and that the complainant should prove his case first on the 9th of December. On the 11th of December the complainant petitioned the District Magistrate to remove the case from the file of Babu Shib Chunder Nag to that of some other Magistrate, on the ground