Jackson, J.

1. The appellant has been sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment for abetting the forging of a promissory" note.

2. On the facts there seems to be no doubt that the appellant is guilty under Sections 467, 109, Indian Penal Code. The evidence of the Christian schoolmaster P.W. 9 proves that the accused asked him to write the draft of the promissory note, Ex. C, after the death of its alleged maker Krishna Reddi, obviously for the purpose of a fraudulent execution.

3. Section 467 has no necessary connection with any Court proceeding, and when the committal order came before me upon an application to have it cancelled, I declined to interfere as there was sufficient evidence to establish a prima facie case against. the accused. but now that the whole record is before us, the matter is not quite so simple. In the complaint Ex. J it is alleged that the accused fabricated a pro-note and induced one Vatta Goundan to file a suit against Krishna "Reddi in the Panchayat Court and obtained a fraudulent decree. The complainant was ignorant of all this until the execution of the decree was begun in the District Munsifs Court. "The object of brjngrag about these forged a