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Several persons cannot be tried for being collectively responsible. - Several persons in a restaurant were found sitting round two tables lying side by side on four chairs and a cot lying near the table. They had their hands or elbows on the table on which there were four tumblers containing small quantities of liquor and a bottle containing liquor of the same variety. The Magistrate convicted the accused along with his six companions on the ground of their being collectively responsible for the possession of liquor on the table. It was held that the Magistrate could not enforce collective responsibility without trying to find out whether the accused was in individual possession of any tumbler containing any liquor. .