The petitioner is the 1st accused in P.R.C. Nos.1 and 2 of 1953 and C.C. No.8 of 1953 on the file of the Stipendiary I Class Magistrate, Guntur. The complainant in all these cases is one Guduru Govardhanaiah who was a partner of the accused in a firm called Chaparala Krishna Brahmam & Co., Guntur. The substance of the allegations made by the complainant in P.R.C. No.1 of 1953 is this. The partners in the firm fell out and there was litigation between them in the civil Courts in Guntur. With a view to cause loss to the complainant the accused prepared false accounts, He also filed before the Income-tax Officer a form bearing the date 4th February, 1952, for the renewal of the registration of the firm. That form is a forged one. In order to fasten responsibility for his false accounts and also liability to income-tax on P.W. i and the complainant, the accused probably ante-dated some renewal form, signatures on which of the complainant and P.W. i may have been obtained by the accused in 1949 or 1950 before the partners fell out: he wanted to cheat all concerned. The accused thus committed offences under sections 467, 471 and 420, Indian Penal Code.

In the complaint in P.R.C. No