These are two petitions for revising the order of the Additional First Class Magistrate, Cuddalore, in C. C. Nos. 552 and 568 of 1949, directing the trial of the petitioners in those two cases to take place in the Civil Debtor’s yard of the Cuddalore Central Jail and dismissing the petitions put in by these petitioners to hold the Court in the Additional First Class Magistrate’s own Court house or other suitable Court house and not in the Civil Debtor’s yard. C. C. No. 552 of 1949 is a case concerning 30 accused, including, the petitioner in Cr. R. C. No. 1624 of 1949, and the offence therein are offences under sections 147, 332, 353 and 149, Indian Penal Code. C. C. No. 568 of 1949 is against 26 accused, including the petitioner in Cr. R. C. No. 1625 of 1949 and comprises offences under sections 147, 332 and 149, Indian Penal Code. Some of the accused in both the cases are detenus, and some others are convicts. The petitioner in both these Criminal revision cases is a detenu and is the first accused in both the cases.

I have perused the connected records, and heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Public Prosecutor contra. The learned counsel for the peti