TAHER HOSSAIN Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This is a Rule calling upon the District Magistrate of Burdwan to show cause why the proceedings pending against the petitioners under Section 143, Indian Penal Code and under Section 6(6), West Bengal Security Act, 1950 should not be quashed.

(2.) The petitioners who are 20 in number are taking their trial before Sri B. N. Chatterjee, Magistrate, 1st Class, Asansol, who after examining several witnesses framed two charges against the petitioners on 30-4-1954. The charges that have been framed read as follows:

(3.) The notification referred to in the second ccunt of charge above which was published in an extraordinary issue of the Calcutta Gazette on 22-8-1953 declared that the Indian Iron and Steel works at Burnpur, Asansol, bounded by the Works on all sides, were a protected place as defined by the West Bengal Security Act, 1950,