Horwill, J.

1. The respondent put in an application in the Court of the Chief Presidency Magistrate purporting to be under Section 552 of the Code of Criminal Procedure alleging that he was lawfully married to the third petitioner here on the 22nd September, 1940, that the nuptials took place, and that on the following day, the 23rd day of September, 1940, the parents, the first and second petitioners Here, took away the third petitioner against her wishes to her home and detained her there with the intention of getting her married to somebody else.

2. The Magistrate issued a notice under Section 552 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to produce the girl. On the date to which the case had been adjourned an advocate appeared on behalf of the petitioners and represented that it would be a great hardship to bring the girl all the way from Tellicherry in North Malabar to Madras to answer to a petition that could not in any case be granted, because the girl was more than 16 years of age and no offence had been committed within the jurisdiction of the Magistrate. The Magistrate overruled that objection and ordered a non-bailable warrant to issue. Upon the representation of the advocat