( 1 ) GANGA Singh, the applicant in this criminal revision, has been convicted by the Fourth assistant Sessions Judge of Agra for an offence under Section 218 I. P. C. and has been sentenced to three years R. I, His conviction and sentence were confirmed in appeal by the sessions Judge of Agra.

( 2 ) THE prosecution allegations were that the accused-applicant, while working as Secretary of the gaon Sabha of Semra, made a false entry in the birth and death register of the Gram Sabha in question in respect of the death of one lekhraj Singh. According to the prosecution Lekraj Singh actually died on 8-1-1957, but the accused Ganga Singh made a false entry in the register, purporting to have been made on 30-10-1956, showing the date of Lekhraj Singhs death as 30-9-1956. Litigation was going on at the time between Lekhraj Singh and Deshraj Singh over the partition of certain agricultural plots. The suit was decreed in favour of Lekhraj Singh on 3-1-1957, five days before he died; but Deshraj Singh, it is alleged, induced the applicant Ganga singh to make the aforesaid false entry in the birth and death register, So as to afford a basis for arguing that the suit had abated