1. This Criminal Revision Petition by the accused, who has been convicted by the Additional First Class Magistrate, Peermade and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for 6 months on each count under sub-clauses (a) and (g) of S.55 of the Abkari Act is against the confirmation of the conviction and sentence by the Sessions Judge, Kottayam.

2. On 12-3-69 at about 1.30 p. m. pw.1 and pw. 2, Preventive officers of the Excise department, on information received, visited the plantation where the petitioner was working as a labourer. They received, reliable news that the petitioner was conducting manufacture of illicit alcohol in a room of a lane which consisted of 6 rooms used as labour quarter. on that information, they prepared Ext. P2 search memo and thereafter they entered the room in which the petitioner lived. It was the 3rd room from the western side of the building. They found in that room 12 litres of wash in a mud pot, 3 litres of arrack kept in 4 bottles and also some articles described as copper vessel, mud pot, funnel and an aluminium pot, kept underneath a cot. They were seized by pws.1 and 2 under Ext. P3 search list and then they prepared Ext. P1 mahazar in respe