MODI, J.

( 1 ) THIS is a contempt of Court matter set in motion by the Secretary, Rajasthan bar Council, against two Sub-Inspectors of Police Nathuram and Harnamsingh in relation to the arrest of Shri Fateh Chand Kothari, an advocate of this Court, practising at Churu.

( 2 ) THE material facts which have culminated in the present proceedings are briefly these. Shri Kothari was briefed by one Sagarmal in a complaint filed by him under sections 452 and 506, I. P. C. against his son-in-law Maniram and another person manoharlal (obviously a friend of Maniram) in the Court of the Extra Magistrate, first Class, Churu, on 22-7-1953. The allegations made by Sagarmal were that his daughter Mt. Lilawati was being treated by her husband Maniram with great cruelty and so she had come to her fathers house, that Maniram and Manoharlal had come over to Churu about four days ago and met Sagarmal on the night of the 21st July and called upon him to send Mt. Lilawati with them else they threatened that they would take her away by force and cut her nose and then leave her. It was also mentioned in the complaint that Manoharlal had stated at the meeting that "the Thanedar of Churu" was his f