ORDER 1. These two rules relate to two orders one of which is dated 9th January 1929 and the other dated 10th January 1929 relating to a considerable area of char lands. These lands became the subject-matter of proceedings u/s 145, Criminal P.C., some months previously. The proceedings were drawn up about the beginning of October and at the time of the proceedings being initiated an attachment order was made against the lands. Various steps were taken in those proceedings up to the beginning of January 1929 and on 9th January 1929 the Magistrate passed an order after reviewing the situation at some length as a result of which he directed that the lands should be released from the attachment made in the Section 145 proceedings and decided to replace those proceedings with others under the Bengal Alluvial Lands Act 1920 (Bengal Act 5 of 1920). The way he puts it is this: The land is released from attachment u/s 145, Criminal P.C. It will be attached under the Alluvial Lands Act tomorrow. 2. On the following day, proceedings under the Bengal Alluvial Lands Act were instituted and an attachment was made. 3. The grounds which have been argued on the present rules are that the order of the Magistrate staying proceedings u/s 145 and removing the attachment is an illegal order which he had no power to make and which is not warranted by any of the provisions of Section 145. The contention is that u/s 145, Sub-section (5), there is only one method provided by law by which an order u/s 145 can be cancelled and that is where any party or any other person interested has shown that in point of fact there is no dispute which exists and in such a case, as the section says, the Magistrate shall cancel his said order and shall stay all further proceedings but subject to such cancellation the order of the Magistrate under Sub-section (1) shall be final. Reference has been made to the case of Tara Charan v. Bengal Coal Co. Reference has been made to the case of Tara Charan v. Bengal Coal Co. Ltd. [1909] 13 C.W.N. 125 where the question was whether under certain circumstances proceedings u/s 145 could be quashed and it was held that the Magistrate could only quash the proceedings in accordance with the provisions of Sub-section (5), Section 145, on facts being brought to his notice which were sufficient to satisfy him that no dispute likely to cause a breach of the peace existed. Another case to the same effect, namely, the case of Ranada Ranjan Bhattacharjee Vs. Bharat Chandra Saha and Others, AIR 1921 Cal 631 was referred to. But the question raised in that case is entirely different to that which arises in this present case. There the question concerned the procedure as to the correct method of disposal of the proceedings u/s 145. Where the question arises in those proceedings themselves there was no question, as it is here, of the method of disposal of the proceedings in a case where as in the present the alternative method of procedure has been laid down by another statute. At the time of the cases to which we have just referred the Bengal Alluvial Lands Act 1920 had not yet been passed. It is therefore necessary to decide the present case upon a consideration of the provisions of that statute. In the preamble of that Act it is stated that: previous sanction of the Governor-General has been obtained u/s 79, Sub-section (2), Government of India Act 1915 and the statute is directed towards making provisions to prevent disputes with regard to possession of alluvial or derilict lands in Bengal- Section 3 of the Act confers power on the Collector to attach lands of this nature and provides a procedure which is in some way analogous to the procedure already existing u/s 145. The Collector has power to make any attachment of alluvial lands and then to refer the matter to a civil Court, besides the power of giving certain directions as to costs. Section 10 of the Act is an important one for our present purposes. The Collector has power to make any attachment of alluvial lands and then to refer the matter to a civil Court, besides the power of giving certain directions as to costs. Section 10 of the Act is an important one for our present purposes. It provides that when the Collector has attached any alluvial land u/s 3 no proceedings u/s 145, Criminal P.C., 1898 shall be instituted in any Court in respect of the same land or of any part thereof and that any such proceedings already commenced and pending in any such Court shall be stayed. It has been contended that that section is intended to apply to the proceedings u/s 145 so far as their institution or carrying on is concerned, and not to the attachment order which may be made u/s 145 and that once an attachment order has been made in a proceeding u/s 145, Section 10, Bengal Alluvial Lands Act of 1920, confers no right upon the Collector to make a further attachment under the powers under that Act. The answer to that contention, we think, is that it introduced limitation upon the general words in the section itself which was not to be found there. Moreover, it is to be remembered that in most, if not all, of the cases which are instituted u/s 145, Criminal P.C., this order of attachment is commonly made at the time of the institution of the proceedings. If the contention were sound it would result in nullifying the provisions of the Bengal Alluvial Lands Act of 1920. The position in our opinion is that the provisions of Section 10 are certainly wide enough to apply to all proceedings, including an attachment that may have been had u/s 145. The result, therefore, is as regards these two orders of the 9th and 10th January that assuming that the order of the 9th January was not strictly correct in that that the proceeding under the Bengal Alluvial Lands Act should have been instituted first and it is not a matter of substance in the present case because if the order were wrong and if the proceedings u/s 145 had been allowed to continue and a proceeding had then been instituted under the Bengal Alluvial Lands Act the effect of Section 10 of that Act would be to stay the earlier proceedings. 4. The rules are, therefore, discharged. 4. The rules are, therefore, discharged. Let the record be sent down at once.