Hidayatulla, J—This order will also govern Miscellaneous Criminal Case No. 339 of 1948.

2. These are two cases arising out of two applications made by Hawkins and Powell for suitable action against certain persons for alleged contempt of Court. The first application out of which Miscellaneous Criminal Case No. 327 of 1948 arises was made by Hawkins on the 23rd August 1948. It was directed against the Hon'ble Pandit D. P. Mishra, Home Minister, Central Provinces and Berar Government, and the editors and printers of two newspapers called the Hitavada and the Jai-Hind published at Nagpur and Jubbulpore, respectively. The incriminating news items purported to be the reports of a speech said to have been delivered by Pandit D. P. Mishra at Jubbulpore on the occasion of the first anniversary of Indian Independence, which fell on the 15th August 1948. It was stated by Hawkins in his application that the speech and the news items referred to cases pending against him and that the Home Minister was responsible for the comments in this speech, which were a clear contempt of Court, and that the others were responsible for publishing the said speech in their newspapers with headlines, m