JUDGMENT

Young, J. - This is an appeal from the order of the learned District Judge of Shahjahanpur by which order he committed Rai Bahadur Pandit Shea Narain Misra, the Chairman of the District Board of Shahjahanpur and Sardar Indar Singh, the engineer and acting secretary of the Board, for 6 months, for contempt of Court. Both these persons appeal against the order of the learned District Judge.

2. There apparently was friction in the District Board of Shahjahanpur between the Chairman and the members of the Board on the one hand, and Mr. Kailashi Nath Kapoor who was secretary and had held that office for some 12 years on the other. The result was that by a resolution dated 22nd June 1932 the Board dismissed Mr. Kailashi Nath from his office alleging as reason therefor, firstly, the economic situation and the desitability of the amalgamating the offices of the engineer and the secretary, and, secondly, that Mr. Kailashi Nath was unsatisfactory, incompetent, and had been creating friction among the members of the Board.

3. On the 23rd June Mr. Kailashi Nath filed a suit for an injuction restraining the defendants from interfering with the discharge of his duties as secretary and proh