( 1 ) THIS petition under Section 482" Code of Criminal Proceedure (hereinafter referred to as. the Code), raises some important questions of law. However, the facts giving rise to it lie in a narrow compass.

( 2 ) ON 4th July 1983, the petitioner, his wife Smt. Malti Devi, the tenant of the petitioner Ramesh Chand and his wife Smt. Bhagwati Devi Were arrested by SI Bachan Singh of Police Station Sultan Pari under Section 93 read with Section 97 of the Delhi Police Act (for short the Act ). It was alleged that the petitioner and his wife on the one hand and Ramesh Chand and his wife on the other were indulging in abusive language and were fighting with each other in a public street and they would not desisc from doing so despite intervention by the people residing in the Mohalla and even the police. They were produced before the concerned Metropolitan Magistrate on that very day and were released on bail on furnishing a personal bond of Rs. 500. 00 each. A report termed by the police as kalendra under Section 93/97 was also filed by the police on the same date. They were directed to present themselves again in Court on 20th August 1983. The case was then adjourned