Allahabad Court October 1917 Judgments
Anant Ram and ors. Vs. Collector and ors.
Court: Allahabad
Decided on: Oct-29-1917
Reported in: (1918)ILR40All171
1. The question raised in this appeal is as to the rights of certain mortgagees under and in respect of a mortgage which was dated the 4th of September, 1894. That mortgage was executed by one Raja Sheoraj Singh, the manages of certain joint property held by himself and his brother, Maharaj Singh, and governed by the Mitakshara law. The mortgage was for the sum of 3,000 rupees, with interest at the rate of 1 rupee 2 annas per cent. per month, with compound interest and half-yearly rests. The mortgage affects three villages, and on the face of it there is a recital that the money was lent in order that the mortgagor might pay the Government revenue. The original mortgagee is dead, and his representatives instituted the proceedings out of which this appeal has arisen for the purpose of enforcing their rights under the mortgage deed. A considerable number of defences were raised by the different parties who were made defendants to those proceedings, but for the purpose of the present appe...
Tag this Judgment!Premgir Vs. Emperor
Court: Allahabad
Decided on: Oct-05-1917
Reported in: AIR1918All298; 43Ind.Cas.785
1. Premgir a boy whose age is between 14 and 15 years, has been convicted of having murdered another boy named Parshotam, aged about 12 years. He has been sentenced to death and the record has been submitted for confirmation of the capital sentence. He has appealed from jail. The case for the prosecution is that the accused and the deceased were gambling with cowries in a jungle. There was some quarrel between them. The deceased struck the accused a lathi blow and thereupon the latter who had a small axe in his hand struck him with it and killed him, and subsequently cut off his hands and appropriated the silver bangles which the deceased was wearing as also his gold earrings. The evidence proves that the deceased boy was missing. His relatives searched for him but without success. A woman of the name of Budhni told Sat Narayan, the uncle of (he deceased, that if he went to the jangle he might find something. He did go there and discovered the dead body of the boy. The matter was menti...
Tag this Judgment!Emperor Vs. Chandan Singh and ors.
Court: Allahabad
Decided on: Oct-01-1917
Reported in: (1918)ILR40All103
Pramada Charan Banerji, J.1. The appellants have been convicted of having caused the death of one Girdhar Singh and each of them has been sentenced under Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code to ten years' rigorous imprisonment.2. It has been fully proved that there are various factious among the residents of the village of which the deceased was and the appellants are residents and that considerable enmity existed between the deceased and the appellants. A few days before the occurrence, the deceased had given evidence against the appellant, and on the day on which he was killed he was to have given evidence against them in the Tahsildar's court in favour of one of his partizans. That morning, while he was seated at his chaupal, the three accused came there, armed with lathis, and challenged the deceased Girdhar Singh. There was an exchange of abuse and each side threatened to strike the other. Some of the persons who were there intervened and one of them asked Girdhar Singh to go into...
Tag this Judgment!Chandan Singh and ors. Vs. Emperor
Court: Allahabad
Decided on: Oct-01-1917
Reported in: AIR1918All209(1); 43Ind.Cas.438
P.C. Banerji, J.1. The appellants have been convicted of having caused the death of one Girdhar Singh and such of them has been sentenced, under Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code, to ten years rigorous imprisonment.2. It has been fully proved that there are various factions among the residents of the village of which the deceased was and the appellants are residents and that considerable enmity existed between the deceased and the appellants. A few days before the occurrence the deceased had given evidence against the appellants, and on the day on which he was killed be was to have given evidence against them in the Tahsildar's Court in favour of one of his partisans. That morning while he was seated at his chaupal the three accused came there, armed with lathis, and challenged the deceased Girdhar Singh. There was an exchange of abuse and each side threatened to strise the other. Some of the persons who were there intervened and one o f them asked Girdhar Singh to go into his house...
Tag this Judgment!Thakur Das and ors. Vs. Emperor
Court: Allahabad
Decided on: Oct-01-1917
Reported in: 42Ind.Cas.924
1. The three applicants have been convicted under Section 120B (1) read with Section 211 of the Indian Penal Code. Their convictions have been upheld by the learned Sessions Judge. The facts of the case are if ally set forth in the judgment of the learned Sessions Judge. They are briefly these. On the 2nd of November 1916 the applicant Daryao Singh presented a petition in the Court of Mr. Dampier, who was both Magistrate and Collector of Muttra, in which he made various allegations against the Tahsildar of Muttra. These allegations, if true, would constitute offences under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, the principal offence being one under Section 161. Mr. Dampier treated the application as a complaint under the Code of Criminal Procedure and recorded the statement of Daryao Singh on oath, in which he made specific allegations of bribery and extortion against the Tahsildar. The learned District Magistrate directed an enquiry under Section 202 of the Code of Criminal Proced...
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