one's guilt has been proved in a court of law. Encouraged by public apathy, later on the onus of proof was laid on the accused in suspected cases of gold smuggling also. Of late, there has "been a series of interferences with the privileges of the High Courts and the spirit of the administration in such matters cornea out openly and in an ugly form when a Minister of the Union makes a public appeal to lawyers not to defend the accused in cases of prosecution of drug adulteration, for example.