NARASIMHAM, J.

( 1 ) THIS revision has been referred to me under Section 429, Cr. p. C. in consequence of a difference of opinion between my Lord the Chief Justice and my learned brother Justice Das (as he then was) who first heard the revision as a Division Bench.

( 2 ) PETITIONER No. 1 Narayan Das alias Madhusudan Das Babaji came to village saradhapur in Bonai State, proclaimed himself to be the living God 'anantakishore', called upon the villagers to worship him and succeeded in gathering a number of disciples around him who believe in his divinity. There was a girl named Bhanumati aged about fifteen years (P. W. 7.) daughter of one Rajib Lochan Mohanti of the village, The Babaji somehow induced a belief in the girl as well as in her father and some of the co-villagers that she was 'anantakishori' and that none else but he was fit to wed her. In consequence of this belief the girl was in due course given in marriage to him by her father and for sometime the Babaji and his wife were looked upon as living God and goddess. On the 17th of July 1950 which was the Ratha Jatra day some of the disciples of the Babaji placed him and his wife on a Bath and dragged it through the village