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1.
The Village Magistrate was not acting as a Judge when the alleged extortion was committed. See Kandasami Chetty v. Soli Gounden 23 M.
540.
2.
No sanction was, therefore, necessary. The orders of the Courts below requiring sanction are the cause of the delay that has occurred since the
offence was committed, and we, therefore, cannot refuse to interfere on the ground that the Judge''s order was passed so long ago as February
1903. We set aside the order of the Sub-Magistrate dismissing the complaint for want of sanction, and we direct him to restore the case (C.C.
No. 415 of 1902) to his file and to dispose of it according to law.