ORDER

Kendall, J. - The present applicants have been convicted by a First Class Magistrate of Agra, of an offence u/s 188, Penal Code, and that order has been maintained by the lower appellate. Court. The facts briefly are that the applicants were caught throwing bricks at the houses of theiir neighbours. There were eleven of them, and at this period the relations between the Hindus and Mahomedans of Agra City, were very strained, and consequently a notice had been promulgated u/s 144, Criminal P.C., preventing the members, of the public when frequenting1 or visiting certain places within the 'Municipal area, from collecting bricks, carrying sticks, etc., or missiles and gathering in public places, etc. A number of arguments have been addressed to me in support of the present application for revision, but they are of a purely argumentative description.

2. It has been said that as the notice-under Section 144 was addressed to the "public when frequenting or visiting" these specified areas, it was not sufficiently precise. I have been referred to one or two decisions in which it has been held that a Municipal area, or a city are not sufficiently precise. But the areas specified in the