ORDER : - The petitioner in this writ petition is a dismissed Government servant and he seeks to issue a writ of mandamus or other appropriate writ for quashing the order of dismissal. The facts necessary to appreciate the legal points raised by the petitioner against the order of his dismissal are these: The petitioner had put in nearly thirty years of service under the Government of Madras and the last post that he held was as Sty. Sub-Magistrate, Pollachi in Coimbatore District. While so he was engaged in the trial of a case of wrongful confinement and extortion against one Chinnaswami Gounder, an influential and wealthy person of the place, and his two sons and some others between March and June 1949. On 21-6-1949 an application was filed for the adjournment of the case on production of a medical certificate by the principal accused. This was granted and on the next day the case was transferred to the file of the Additional First Class Magistrate, Pollachi.

2. The circumstances which led to the transfer of the case from the file of the petitioners court to that of the Additional First Class Magistrate was that a statement was made by one Sethurama Goundan before the Dis