NASIR ULLAH BEG, J.

( 1 ) THIS is an application on behalf of 20 accused under Article 227 of the Constitution of India read with Section 561a, Criminal P. C. The accused applicants were convicted by the Gaon panchayati Adalat of Khajuria Awasi district Sitapur, under Section 160, Penal Code and sentenced to pay a fine of Rs. 40 each. The applicants filed a revision against their conviction before the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Sitapur, who dismissed the revision on 17-4-1951. They filed another application for revision before the Sessions Judge of Sitapur who dismissed their revision on 16-6-1951, on the ground that no revision application against the order of the panchayati Adalat was maintainable in the said Court under the U. P. Panchayat Raj Act (XXVI of 1947 ). The applicants have filed the present application in this Court under Article 227 of the constitution of India and Section 561a, Criminal P. C. praying that the entire proceedings before the Panchayat including the order of conviction passed by the Panchayati Adalat be quashed as illegal and void in law.

( 2 ) BEFORE the hearing of the application a preliminary objection to the maintainability of this application was t

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