1. On 16th July 1943, the applicant, who is the publisher and printer of the Nagpur Times, published an editorial entitled ''Food Situation Prom Afar.'' As the result of this he received two notices from the Provincial Government one under Section 3(3), as printer, of the Press (Emergency Powers) Act of 1931, and the other under Sub-section (3) of Section 7 of the Act, as publisher in respect of the editorial and in particular two passages cited by the Provincial Government: He first accuses the cultivators for witholding food-grains from the market which is anything but a fact. It would be very easy to prove from the numberless notices received by Malguzars and well-to-do cultivators that the cultivators have been almost legally robbed of the last bushel of any excess of grains they might have. Orders have been served on them to prohibit them from transferring grains to their own lands elsewhere even if they are required to make up their own grain deficits there.

It is appreciated that war has made a certain amount of food-scarcity inevitable, but they have always been suspecting that scarcity conditions over and above the unavoidable have been studiously manufactured to co