JUDGMENT

Walsh, J. - This is an exceptionally difficult matter to know what to do without I have come to a sort of rough conclusion which I think will conform to the procedure laid down by this Court in other cases, and possibly in the end be more satisfactory to both parties than the present state of things. One Uchhab Singh complained before" a Special Magistrate at Naini Tal that he had been slandeied by the accused Umed Singh by reason of a statement, made by Umed Singh to the effect that Uchhab Singh had suffered the penalty of being out casted by reason of his social relations with one I achhi who himself was an outcaste The matter had already assumed considerable proportions before it reached the Magistrate. Nothing else could account for the extremely elaborate judgment in which he has dealt with the matter, and although he describes it as a trifling matter (he is an Indian and ought to know better than I do, but I think that these caste questions in village communities are very far from being trifling matters) such an agitation was caused the 150 villages have been affected directly and hundred villages indirectly within a short time. It sounds more like the description of