P. L. BHARGAVA, J.

( 1 ) THIS is an application in revision by Jokhai and Bhagwati, who were convicted by a magistrate of Bhadohi (Banaras) for an offence punishable under Section 500, Penal Code, and each of whom was sentenced to pay a fine of Rs. 40, or in default of payment of fine to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one month. The applicants went up in revision to the Sessions Judge of Bhadohi ; but the revision was rejected. Now, they have come up to this Court in revision.

( 2 ) THE facts which have given rise to this revision are these : The applicants, Jokhai and bhagwati, and the complainant, Ram Sumer Chamar, live in the same village ; Jokhai is the chaukidar, while Bhagwati is the Mukhia of the village. Ram Sumer filed a complaint against the applicants alleging that owing to enmity the applicants had circulated a false rumour in the village that the complainants daughter-in-law, whose husband was away from the village, was pregnant and there was miscarriage; and that on hearing about the rumour a Sub-Inspector of police had come to his house, examined his daughter-in-law and found that the news circulated by the applicants was false. He further alleged that in conseque

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