JUDGMENT

George Knox, J. - Paimal Nai is reported to have been arrested by the Police acting u/s 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. He was arrested as being a person who had been concerned in a cognizable offence or against whom a reasonable complaint had been made or credible information received or reasonable suspicion existed of his having been SO concerned. The offence is apparently theft or possession of stolen property belonging to one Mohan.

2. The value of this information or suspicion may be appraised from the fact that when he was arrested, no attempt whatever was made to charge him with the offence. The Police, instead, had resort to Section 110 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and they placed Paimal before a Magistrate with a view of action being taken under that section. They appear to have given the Magistrate some information of the vaguest possible description that Paimal had been concerned in several cases, that he was in the habit of consorting with bad characters and chat he was himself a bad character. As this information, which was given to the Magistrate before the 17th February 1912, was not substantiated by any evidence until the 11th March 1912, the proba