R. S. Thakur, J.—This suo motu criminal revision was entertained by this Court after perusing the record of the case on the file of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate at Nahan, bearing the title Dhian Singh v. Jagir Singh and others, in a criminal case which action was prompted by a report which appeared in the Indian Express dated December 23, 1987 to the effect that the said Chief Judicial Magistrate had acquitted the accused persons in that case of a very serious offence alleged against them on their taking an oath in a temple to the effect that they had not committed any such offence.

2. It transpires from the record of the trial Court that one Dhian Singh (hereinafter referred to the complainant) filed a criminal complaint against as many as nine accused (respondents herein) under sections 147, 148, 149, 506, 392, 394 and 109 of the Indian Penal Code wherein the complainant alleged that on July 29, 19«6 his son met him in his shop at Ghandri after he came from Delhi and handed over to him a sum of Rs. 18,000 which amount he (his son) had received from the agents at Delhi as price of potatoes which the complainant and his son had sold to them. Thereafter sometime in t