1. 1s the District Magistrate exercising powers under S.16(1) of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 an 'inferior Criminal Court' and is the order of such District Magistrate revisable by the Sessions Judge under S.397 of the Code of Criminal Procedure? This the issue which calls for determination in these petitions. A learned single judge before whom the matter came up referred the matter to the Division Bench in view of the importance of the question and on a reference by the Division Bench the matter is now before the Full Bench.

2. The petitioners in these petitions filed under S.482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure seek to set aside the order passed by the Sessions Judge, Tellicherry in two Criminal Revision Petitions and seek directions from this Court to the Sessions Judge to entertain the petitions on his file and to dispose them on merits.

3. There was a proposal by the Kerala State Electricity Board to construct and lay a 110 K.V. double circuit Transmission line to a private company, tapping the existing Cannanore-Kasaragode 110 K. V. line at Kattampally. The proposal envisaged the said line crossing over the property of the petitioners in the two cases. Both the p