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Superintendence, Superintendence connotes super-vision which implies hierarchy, viz., supervisor and the one supervised. It would, therefore, mean keeping a check, watch over the work of another who may be a subordinate in a hierarchy of authority. It would also comprehend that supervision is not merely a negative thing so as to keep a watch but it would imply giving of direction, guidance, even instructions, and in a given case and in a given situation asking one who is being supervised to forbear from doing a thing and directing some one else to do that thing, State of Bihar v. J.A.C. Saldhana, (1980) 1 SCC 554: AIR 1980 SC 326 (333). [Criminal Procedure Code, 1974, ss. 36, 156, 173]