Allahabad Court October 1931 Judgments

Pancha Vs. Emperor

Court: Allahabad

Reported in: AIR1932All233

Sulaiman, J.1. This is a criminal appeal from a conviction under Section 302, I.P.C. The facts relating to the murder of the deceased Fakira Chamar are perfectly clear. The 2nd April 1931 was a moonlit night on which a lunar eclipse occurred. Just about the time when the eclipse was at its maximum and there was darkness all round, the accused Pancha Chamar attacked Fakir Chamar with lathis, who was sleeping on a charpoy in front of Simru's house. Several blows fell on his bead near and above the left eyebrow and fractured his skull completely resulting in instantaneous death. The first information report was made at 8 o'clock next morning at the police station, which was one mile off, and the names of the accused and the important witnesses were mentioned in it2. Mt. Kori, a Chamar woman, 70 years of age, whose house is across the lane and on the opposite side of Simru's house at a distance of only a few paces, got up at midnight to supply water to the wife of her nephew who was lying ...