This is a Criminal Revision Case filed against the conviction and sentence of the Petitioners in C.A. No. 67 of 1951 on the file of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Bandar confirming the conviction and sentence in C.C. Nos. 70 to 76 of 1951 on the file of the Stationary Sub-Magistrate, Avanigadda.

The facts are:-

On 12th January, 1951, the Sub-Inspector of Police of Avanigadda approached the Stationary Sub-Magistrate of Avanigadda with a requisition Ex. P-2 in which he stated that he had reliable information that gambling on a large scale was going on in a common gaming house bearing door No. 21/4 in the fourth ward of Avanigadda belonging to Tangiralla Viswanadha Sastri and requested the issue of a search warrant to enable him to search the house. The Sub-Magistrate is stated to have put further questions also to the Sub-Inspector of Police as would justify him to issue the warrant and he is said to have after satisfying himself, issued a search warrant Ex. D-1. This search warrant was issued on 12th January, 1951. In pursuance of this warrant on 14th January, 1951, the Sub-Inspector of Police of Avanigadda accompanied by two Panchayatdars of whom one has been examined as P.