( 1 ) THIS is a writ petition by one Ram Swarup. The opposite parties in this writ petition are Ram narain Sharma, station officer Beniganj district Hardoi, opposite party No. 1 and Sri Ravindra nath Agarwala, Superintendent of Police Hardoi opposite Party No. 2. The allegations of the petitioner in the writ petition are that the peitioner is a resident of Beniganj in the district of hardoi. He has never been convicted of any offence mentioned in paragraph 226 of the Police regulations. He is a cloth merchant and has a shop in the town at Beniganj. He also holds agricultrual land op an area of about sixty bighas. He was paying the Town Area Tax for a long time. At one time he was also paying income-tax. He comes of a respectable family of Beniganj.

( 2 ) THE petition then goes on to state that since the year 1947 relations between the petitioner and the local police became strained. The petitioner had lodged a report against one Mohammad amin, a sub-inspector of police who was dismissed as a result thereof. In the year 1957 the petitioner protested against the high-handedness of the station officer of Beniganj, and on an enquiry made by the Superintendent of Police in