Judgement

JAGANNADHA DAS, C. J. :- These are three applications made under Art.226 of the Constitution and S.439, Criminal P.C. They arise out of certain searches made in the premises at Cuttack of the petitioners in the three applications by Sri S.W. Abbas, Inspector, Special Police Establishment Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, on 14-6-52. On the said searches it would appear that nothing of an incriminating nature with reference to the purpose of the search was recovered from the premises of the petitioners in O.J.C. 17/52, but some documents were seized from the house of the petitioners 1 and 2 in O.J.C. 33/52. All the petitioners in the three petitions before us applied to the Magistrate who issued the search warrants for certified copies of : (1) the report made by the police or any other person on the basis of which the search warrant was issued; (2) the search warrant; and (3) copies of the order-sheet of the Magisterial record. The Magistrate granted certified copies only of the search warrant and declined to grant certified copies of the other documents asked for. These petitioners, thereupon, came up to this Court with these applications. In all the applicat