P.D. Rajan, J.

1. The revisional jurisdiction of the High Court under S. 397 and 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is a supervisory jurisdiction to call for and examine the records of the inferior courts and satisfy itself the correctness, legality or propriety of any order passed by the lower courts. From the nature of powers granted to the revisional court, it appears that the revisional court can act on its own motion or on the action of a stranger who may bring the matter to the court which the revisional court may not have known otherwise. The revision petitioners were charge sheeted in C.C. 737 of 2002 before the Judicial Magistrate of First Class I, Punalur for having committed an offence punishable under S. 143, 147,148, 447, 354, 323, 324, 326 read with 149 I.P.C. The charge against them was that on 16.5.2002 at 8.30 pm, revision petitioners formed themselves into an unlawful assembly armed with deadly weapon and in furtherance of their common object, assaulted PW 1 and PW 2, as a result they sustained serious injuries. To prove the offence, prosecution examined PW 1 to PW 9 and marked Ext. P1 to P10(a). The incriminating circumstances brought out in evidence wer