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In Re: the Public Prosecutor

Type Court Judgment Court Chennai Decided Jun 27, 1950
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Citation
Court
Chennai High Court
Judge
Decided On
Case Number
Criminal Revn. Case No. 695 and Cri. Revn. Petn. No. 639 of 1950
Subject
Criminal

Case Summary

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- - Besides detention in a Borstal School is a reformatory measure I like admonition and there is little point in piling detention on detention any more than in giving admonition after admonition.

Key legal issue
Criminal
Acts & sections
Reformatory Schools Act, 1897 - Sections 8

Parties & Advocates

Appellant / Petitioner

In Re: the Public Prosecutor

Advocate The Asst. Public Prosecutor

Legal References

Acts
Reformatory Schools Act, 1897 - Sections 8
Reported In
AIR1951Mad607; (1951)IMLJ14

Excerpt

- - besides detention in a borstal school is a reformatory measure i like admonition and there is little point in piling detention on detention any more than in giving admonition after admonition.orderpanchapakesa ayyar, j.1. the learned public prosecutor is right when he says that there is no provision to direct an order of detention in a borstal school to run consecutively with such a previous order of detention, as in the case of a sentence of imprisonment. besides detention in a borstal school is a reformatory measure i like admonition and there is little point in piling detention on detention any more than in giving admonition after admonition. so, the learned magistrate's order directing this detention to be consecutive to the previous one is set aside, and the detention directed here is allowed to be merged in the previous detention (ordered in c. c. no. 6 of 1950, sub-divisional magistrate narasaraopet) and to run concurrently with it till that term is over.

Full Judgment

ORDER

Panchapakesa Ayyar, J.

1. The learned Public Prosecutor is right when he says that there is no provision to direct an order of detention in a Borstal School to run consecutively with such a previous order of detention, as in the case of a sentence of imprisonment. Besides detention in a Borstal School is a reformatory measure I like admonition and there is little point in piling detention on detention any more than in giving admonition after admonition. So, the learned Magistrate's order directing this detention to be consecutive to the previous one is set aside, and the detention directed here is allowed to be merged in the previous detention (ordered in C. C. No. 6 of 1950, Sub-Divisional Magistrate Narasaraopet) and to run concurrently with it till that term is over.

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