This is a criminal revision case which has been filed against the order made by the learned Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Tirupathur, in C.C.No.326 of 1951 which was confirmed by the District Magistrate of North Arcot in C.R.P. No.15 of 1952.

The facts are: A complaint was filed in the Court of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Tirupathur by one Dowlath against the District Forest Officer, Tirupathur Mr Dey and seven others. The complaint was that at about 11a.m. on 6th August, 1951, when the complainant was grazing his goats in the private land of one Abdul Rahim Sahib the District Forest Officer, who was accused 1 in the complaint directed the other accused, viz., accused 2 to 7 who were forest subordinates and the eighth accused, being a non-official, to take the animals to the pound and that some of the other accused accordingly drove away these animals and impounded them and that the District Forest Officer slapped the complainant on his cheek and kicked him resulting in injuries and directed some of the other accused to arrest the complainant and that the complainant was locked up in the Police station at Alangayam. The sworn statement of this complainant was substantially