1. (3rd of August 1900) : This is an application by the Public Prosecutor, Madras, to revise the order of the Town Sub Magistrate, City I, Coimbatore. The respondent and some others have been arrested in connection with counterfeiting currency note; and they have been remanded to custody. The investigation is not yet complete and the charge - sheet has not yet been filed. In the course of the investigation statements have been recorded under S. 164 CrPC. The respondent applied for copies of these statements. The magistrate has directed copies of those statements to be granted to the respondent. Against this order directing the grant of copies to the respondent, the present revision has been filed by the Public Prosecutor.
The contention of the learned Public Prosecutor is that these conies are not to be granted at this stage, that is, before the filing of the charge - sheet. He had also contended that even after the Tiling of the charge - sheet, copies of those statements should not be granted unless they from part of the record though in the objection filed by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Crime Branch, C.I.D., Sri R.M. Krishaswami, he has stated that the accused are entitle