(1.) THIS is a petition for revision of an order passed by a learned Magistrate initiating proceedings under Section 514, Criminal P. C, against sureties.
(2.) SUMMONSES had been issued against two persons and the three petitioners stood surety. The persons accused moved this Court in revision praying that the proceedings against them should be quashed. This Court issued a rule and stayed all further proceedings in the lower Court until the rule was heard and disposed of.
(3.) WHEN this Court orders criminal proceedings to be stayed.it means what it says, namely, that all proceedings in the Court below must be suspended and nothing done until the matter is disposed of in this Court. If the proceedings in the Court below are to be suspended entirely it follows that the accused need not appear in the Court from time to time whilst the stay order is in existence. Further, the stay order absolves the sureties from their obligation to produce the accused in Court during the period of the stay order is effective. When this Court Stayed the proceedings, it appears to me that the sureties were not under an obligation to produce the accused until such stay order was discharged.