JUDGMENT

Boys, J. - In this case three persons, a father, a son and the son's wife were convicted u/s 182 of the Indian Penal Code of having given false information to the District Magistrate in that they complained to him that the son's wife had been raped by a certain Sub-Inspector. They made between them two complaints, one on the 8th of September and the other on the 6th of November 1923; while the offence was alleged to have been committed on as long before as July the 25th 1923. The complaints were dismissed by the District Magistrate u/s 203 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The three accused were prosecuted to conviction u/s 182, Indian Penal Code. The father, the present applicant before me, Ganga Sahai, is sentenced to four months' rigorous imprisonment and the son and his wife to lines of Rs. 25 each. Ganga Sahai went up in appeal to the Sessions Judge and has now come up here in revision. On his behalf three points are taken,. (1) that he had no guilty knowledge that the complaints were false. The learned Judge has given reasons for holding that he had guilty knowledge and his conclusion being clearly a finding of fact, this Court would not, except under very exceptional c