( 1 ) IN peculiar circumstances this petition has come to be filed. In fact at the bar a grievance was made as regards practice in vogue in some Courts of sending a criminal case from the Metropolitan Magistrates Court to the Sessions Court and from the Sessions Court to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrates Court and from there again to the Metropolitan Magistrates Court. This exactly seems to have happened in the present case with the result that as stated by the learned Advocate for the petitioner at the bar the petitioner had to execute fresh bail and surety bond four times.

( 2 ) THE following facts will be quite eloquent on this grievance and they now call for true and correct interpretation of the relevant provisions bearing upon the powers of the Magistrate and the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (which interpretation would cover Judicial Magistrate and Chief Judicial Magistrate also) as regards sending of cases from one Court to another on the ground that the sentence which could be imposed by the Magistrate would not be adequate.

( 3 ) THE petitioner was a cashier and he was charge-sheeted before the Metropolitan Magistrate Second Court Ahmedabad with two separa