1. The petitioner was convicted by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate Malapuram under S.211, IPC. and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year. He unsuccessfully appealed to the Sessions Judge, Kozhikode and has now moved this Court in Revision.

2. The Prosecution alleges that the petitioner a prominent worker of the Communist Party falsely accused Pws. 8 and 9 of having murdered Kunhi Mohammed (P.W.1) by beating him and throwing his body into the river, knowing fully well that no such thing had taken place. Pw.1 who took a room belonging to Pw. 8 on rent allowed the rent to fall into arrears. According to the prosecution he voluntarily surrendered the room on 8-9-1959 at 4 P. M. and handed over the key to Pw. 8. The accused and Dw-3 another prominent member of the Communist Party approached Pw.1 and pressed him to disappear from the place and sent him to his father-in-law's house at Cherubadi in Nilgiris. Thereafter the accused with the intent to cause injury to Pws. 8 and 9 started criminal proceedings against them by sending a petition Ext. P-4 to the police alleging that Kunhi Mohammed was manhandled and forcibly evicted from the shop by them and is not to