R. L. NARASIMHAM, C. J.

( 1 ) THIS is a petition, in revision, against the judgment of the Sessions Judge of Sambalpur, declining to interfere with an order of discharge passed by the First Class Magistrate of sambalpur.

( 2 ) ON the 20th July 1937 the petitioner tiled a complaint in the Court of the First Class Magistrate. Jashpurnagar, in the district of Raigarh, in Madhya Pradesh against nine persons alleging that they committed offences under Sections 500, 501 and 502 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, against him. The substance of the allegation was that in three printed books grossly defamatory statements were made against the petitioner by the authors of the same, and that the books were printed and published at the places noted in them and that they were also widely disseminated in Jashpurnagar within the said district of Raigarh where the petitioner was residing. One of the books is entitled "voice of Truth" of which one of the part authors is one O. M. Thomas. In that book it was mentioned that it was published by O. M. Thomas, 20 Elgin Road, Allahabad and that it was printed at St. Paul's Press Training School, Allahabad. The second book is entitled "annota