JUDGMENT

Gokul Prasad, J. - This is an application for the transfer of a case u/s 500 of the Indian Penal Code from the Court of Pandit Sheo Charan Lal, Magistrate of the First Class of Allahabad, in which one Azmat Ali is the complainant and Abdul Rab and others are accused. It appears that, on the day fixed for hearing of this case and before any witnesses were examined the applicant put in an applications for adjournment u/s 526 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, Clause (8), on the ground that he intended to make an application for transfer to the High Court. This application was summarily rejected. The Deputy Magistrate examined four of the prosecution witnesses and took down the statement of the accused. This was on the 23rd of July 1920. After this the Deputy Magistrate adjourned the case for the 27th of July and permitted the complainant to put in a fresh list of witnesses and for the summoning of certain records. On the same day the applicant applied for a copy of the application for adjournment with the order passed thereon and also for copies of the statements of the prosecution witnesses. The order passed thereon was that only copies of the statements of the prosecution w