JUDGMENT

Harries, C J - The respondents Mirza Asdaq Baig, Mr. William Douglas Robinson and Mr. Ernest William Cornish Wace have appeared in this Court in answer to a notice show cause why they should not be connected and punished for contempt of Court, appreciate the points involved, it will be necessary to set out the facts giving rise to lese proceedings in some detail. On 25th October 1943, Mr. Homi Rustomji Pardivala, Barrister-at-Law and an Advocate practising a the original side of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, was instructed by a firm of Solicitors, Messrs Kanga and Company Bombay, to proceed to Lahore and to is truct and appear with Mr. Jiwan Lal Kapur, a Barrister practising in this Court on behalf of Mrs. Purnima Bannerji of Allahabad, ho was proposing to file a petition under: 491, Criminal P.C, relating to one Jai 'arkash Narain who was being detained in his Province under Rule 26, Defence of India Jules. In pursuance of the instructions received from the Solicitors, Mr. Pardivala rived at Lahore on 5th November 1948 and immediately got into touch with Mr. Jiwan jal Kapur whom he instructed to file an application under Section 491, Criminal P.C. This applicatio