1. The impugned proceeding under Section 144, Criminal Procedure Code clearly goes to show how this well-known Section, so frequently resorted to by the people and also by the public authorities, is very often abused by improper and indiscriminate user. But before I proceed to consider and pronounce upon the legality and the propriety of this proceeding in some details, I will have to dispose of some of the preliminary objections to the maintainability of this revisional application raised by and an behalf of the State and the other respondent.

2. It has been urged that this revisional application is not maintainable as the impugned order under Section 144. Criminal Procedure Code has already come to an end by efflux of time. If a proceeding under Section 144, Criminal Procedure Code is, as it cannot but be, a judicial proceeding, the order passed therein cannot but attract the revisional jurisdiction of the High Court, if such jurisdiction is invoked within the time allowed by law and if there are grounds justifying interference in revision and the fact that the impugned order has ceased to be in force cannot be, by itself, a bar to the maintainability of a revision. It ha