NARASIMHAM, J.

( 1 ) THIS rule was issued on the editor and publisher (the opposite party) of an Oriya weekly named The Utkal Bharat of Berhampur for contempt of Court on ground that during the pendency of T. R. Case No. 16 of 1953 in the Court of the Munsif magistrate (1st class) of Aska the said editor published an article in his Weekly dated 19-2-1054 which had a tendency to interfere with the free course of justice. The rule was based on a report submitted to this Court by the Munsif-Magistrate of aska.

( 2 ) THE unchallenged facts are as follows: On 12-3-1953 one Uchhab Patra of village Chatula, p. s. Gangpur, district Ganjam, filed a complaint in the Court of the Sub-divisional Magistrate of Russelkonda alleging that Gopinath Dora, krishnamurti Dora and fourteen other persons of his village had committed criminal trespass inside his house on 12-1-53, looted all his moveable properties and burnt a substantial portion of the same after secreting the rest. This highhanded action was said to have been committed on account of previous bitter enmity between the parties. He further alleged that when he gave information about this incident to the Sub-inspector of Police of Gangpur