JUDGMENT: These are connected appeals preferred by the accused who have been convicted by the learned Assistant Sessions Judge of Tirunelveli in Sessions Case No. 54 of 1956.

2. The case for the prosecution is that accused 1 to 7 conspired amongst themselves and with one Sivakolundu of Jaffna, Ceylon, between December 1954 and October 1955 at Tirunelveli and Madurai to make or possess instruments or materials for the purpose of counterfeiting hundred-rupee currency notes of Reserve Bank of India of Asoka Pillar pattern.

(After setting out the facts of the case the Judge has proceeded to examine the four points of law raised by the advocates for the accused.)

3-20. The learned advocate Mr. Mohan Kumaramangalam pressed before me four points viz., that when P. W. 46 received information about the operations of this gang on 26-7-1955, that constituted the first information report of a cognizable offence and that he should have registered a case then and there and that therefore the information collected thereafter can be adduced in Court only subject to the provisions of S. 162, Criminal Procedure Code; secondly, that P. W. 1 who on instructions by the Inspector posed as the Tanj