Crl. A. No. 710 of 1978 is against the order of the learned Sessions Judge of Madurai Division directing the return of bus TNR 306, which was concerned in S.C. No. 17 of 1978 on the file of the Court of Session, Madurai Division to Rengasami Reddiar, the first accused in the aforesaid Sessions case. The appellant Chinna Naidu was examined as P.W. 6 in the aforesaid case. Cr.R.C. No. 651 of 1978 has been preferred by P.W. 6 Chinna Naidu against the order of the learned Sessions Judge, Madurai Division acquitting the respondent-accused in the aforesaid criminal case. In the aforesaid criminal case all the accused persons were tried by the learned Sessions Judge for an offence punishable under section 148, Indian Penal Code, for having along with 50 others formed themselves into an unlawful assembly on 22nd June, 1976 at about 9-25 p.m. armed with knives and velsticks and committed rioting in prosecution of the common object of the assembly which was to cause the destruction of the bus TNR 306, and accused 2 to 6 were tried for an offence punishable under section 427, Indian Penal Code, for having during the cause of the same transaction on the same day at about 10-15 p.m. com