1. This is a petition against respondents 1 to 5 for contempt of the Munsiff-Magistrate's Court, Perambra and of this Court, the 3rd respondent being the Munsiff-Magistrate himself. The case against respondent 5 has not been pressed and no charges have been framed against him.

2. Charges have been framed against each of the other four respondents and along with the charges, statements of allegations have also been furnished indicating the basis of the charges.

2 (1). The charges against the 1st respondent, A. P. Parukutty Mooppilamma are similar to those against her son the 2nd respondent. Achuthankutty Nair, and they can be summarised as follows: It is alleged that they took proceedings before the Police and Forest authorities without good faith as a device 'to help the jurisdiction of the court' of the Munsiff-Magistrate of Perambra in order to cause oppression and injustice to the petitioner and to gain unlawful advantage; and without any colour of right and in order to overreach and defeat the petitioner of his valuable rights, abused the process of that court. There is a further charge that the acts referred to in Para.8 to 13 of the accompanying statement of facts w