1. This is a petition under S.439 of the Criminal Procedure Code for revising an order which the First Class Magistrate, Varkala passed on 30-5-1966 on an application filed before him by the Enforcement Officer, Enforcement Directorate, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, Cochin. He is the sole respondent in this case. The application was not numbered; but it was made in Crime No. 83 of 1966 of the Varkala Police Station, which it had reported to the Court of the above Magistrate on 27-5-1966.

2. The petitioner before us is one Krishnan Sukumaran, a resident of Varkala Village in Quilon District. The records of the Magistrate's Court, which have been called for, disclose the following facts. At 4 a. m. on 27-5-1966, while the Sub-Inspector of Police, Varkala and party were returning to their station in two motor cars with a few accused persons arrested by them, the Sub-Inspector saw a person standing by the side of the public road near the Mission Hospital, with a filled cloth bag. The Sub-Inspector stopped his car, when the above person went to the car with the bag. Apparently, he was waiting for somebody to come in a car. But when he saw the police, he tried to e