Judgment

RAGHUBAR DAYAL, J. : This appeal, by special leave, is from the order of the Calcutta High Court dated May 16, 1958, summarily dismissing the appeal of the appellant from the order of the learned Single Judge of the High Court convicting him on jury trial of offences under S. 120-B read with S. 471, I. P. C., and on two counts under S. 471 read with S. 466, I. P. C., with respect to two documents. L. N. Kalvanam, who was also tried at the same trial and convicted of the offences under S. 120-B read with S. 471, I. P. C., two counts under S. 466, I. P. C., and of the offence under S. 109, read with S. 471, I. P. C., did not appeal against his conviction.

2. The brief facts of the prosecution case are that the appellant Purushottamdas Dalmia was one of the partners of the firm known as Laxminaryan Gourishankar which had its head office at Gaya and branch at Calcutta. The Calcutta branch was located at 19, Sambhu Mallick Lane. On April 26, 1952, the appellant applied for a licence for importing rupees one crore worth of art silk yarn. On May 2, 1952, the Joint Chief Controller of Imports, Calcutta, issued a provisional licence. In accordance with the rules, this licence was to