1. Petitioner No. 1 M/s. Delhi Bitumen Sales Agency registered is a firm carrying on business of purchase and sale of bitumen. It has its office at Delhi and various branches all over India including one branch at show-room No. 13-A, Sector 7-C Chandigarh. Shri S.C. Jain, petitioner No. 2, is one of its partners. It is alleged that respondent No. 3 is one of the landlords of show-room No. 13-A mentioned above and petitioner No. 1 is a tenant under him. Respondent No. 3 made an attempt to evict the petitioners from these premises by taking proceedings for their eviction in the Courts but could not succeed. Therefore, he in collusion with Govind Parkash respondent No. 4 who is working as a Sectional Officer in Punjab P.W.D. (BandR) at Rajpura lodged a false report Annexure P/1 with the Station House Officer, Rajpura respondent No. 2 that 35 drums of bitumen belonging to the P.W.D. lying on the road side had been stolen on the night between 26th and 27th Nov. 1977. On the basis of this First Information Report, respondent No. 2 accompanied by some other police officers besides respondents Nos. 3 and 4 raided the aforesaid premises of the petitioner on the 3rd of Dec. 1