JUDGMENT

Ghose and Hill, JJ. - The circumstances under which we granted this rule were these : On the 4th June last the Mahomedan festival of Bakr Id, a somewhat serious riot took place at Kindwa, a village near Barrakar and adjoining the works of the Bengal Iron Steel Works Company, in the course of which the mosques of the village were invaded by a large body of armed Hindus, the worshippers ejected, and many of them injured. From the sketch of the occurrence of the day, given in his judgment by' the Magistrate who afterwards tried the persons accused of complicity in the riot, we derive the following particulars : In the early morning of the 4th June information was given to the managers of the above mentioned company that there was a likelihood of a disturbance taking place between the Hindus and Mahomedans of the village, in which it appears a large number of the company's employees live. The managers did what they could by communicating with the leaders of the two communities to avert a collision, and Mr. Glover, one of their number, with the same object in view, proceeded from the factory to the village. He found the market place occupied by a large and excited crowd. He asce