( 1 ) THIS is an application under the Contempt of Courts Act. The petitioner in the case is Sri rajendra Kumar Garg, Pleader, Collectorate Saharanpur. The opposite parties arrayed in the application are (1) Syed Shafiq Ahmad Azad, Managing. Editor, "azad" Urdu Weeking, and (2)Rashid Ahmad Ghazi, Editor "azad" Urdu Weekly, Saharanpur. The petitioner in the said application prayed for action under the Contempt of Courts Act against the opposite parties in respect of an article published in the "azad" Urdu Weekly on 1-5-1955.

( 2 ) IN order to appreciate the arguments of the parties, it would be necessary to narrate the chain of events which culminated in the publication of the aforesaid article. It would appear that in saharanpur there is a factory called Lord Krishna sugar Mills, Saharanpur. On the night between the 28th and 29th March, 1955, the workers of that mill went on strike. The strike, appears to be the result of the strained relations between the workers and the mill owners and the refusal on the part of the latter to accede to certain demands of the former. On 29-3-1955, there was a meeting in which the cultivators who were sugarcane suppliers to the said mill we