1. The petition has been convicted by a 1st Cass Magistrate of an offence under Section 211 of the Indian Penal code and the conviction has been confirmed on appeal by the Sessions Judge.

2. On October 30th, 1915, he gave certain information to the Village Magistrate of Owk, the substance of which may be gathered from the Village Magistrates report, which runs thus This morning at about 9 oclock Malyala Obanna of this village came to me and reported as follows.

3. On 29th October 1915 I obtained a sale of two numbers from Sale Pedda Ramudu of this village for Rs. 384, got a registered sale-deed executed and had it registered. The aforesaid person got the document from the Sub-Registrar and brought it to my house on the same day at 5 oclock in the evening and delivered it to me. At the time I had some urgent business and, as the previous document connected with this was in the pocket of the coat hung upon a peg, I appended this document to it and placed both the documents there is the presence of the said person and went out to the fields. By oversight I did not take any notice of them yesterday. When I looked for them to-day, both the said documents were missing. I at once as