Varadachariar, J.

1. This revision petition arises out of an order passed by the District Munsif of Trichinopoly, directing the arrest and imprisonment of the petitioner for a period of two months. The circumstances which led to that order are as follows : The petitioner was the defendant in O.S. No. 728 of 1933 which had been instituted against him for the recovery of a sum of money. Soon after the filing of the suit, the plaintiff applied for attachment before judgment of a certain sum of money lying with the Public Works Department to the credit of the defendant. In that connexion the defendant filed an affidavit on 29th November 1933 undertaking to draw the bill amount and to deposit the same in Court pending disposal of this petition without utilising it for his other purposes. The plaintiff was not prepared to accept this under-taking because he was not sure what the defendant would do once he drew the money. That this apprehension was well-founded is shown by the events that have subsequently happened. When the attachment application came on for orders before the Court on 29th itself, it appears that the defendants vakil modified the undertaking in the affidavit and subs