Allahabad Court August 1942 Judgments

Bundoo and ors. Vs. Emperor

Court: Allahabad

Reported in: AIR1943All15

ORDERMulla, J.1. This is an application in revision by four Muslim residents of village Pilkhua in the district of Meerut praying that certain criminal proceedings started against them should be quashed as being without any legal justification. The facts put of which this application arises may briefly be stated as follows : The principal applicant Bundoo sacrificed a cow oh the occasion of the Bakr-Id festival in the year 1941 and in that proceeding he was admittedly assisted by the other three applicants, Mohammad Asad Ullah, Sheikh Mohammad Yamin and Master Mohammad Sulaiman. It appears, however, that in the year 1940, Bundoo filed a representative suit in the civil Court for a declaration that the Muslim residents of Pilkhua were entitled to perform cow sacrifice on the occasion of the Bakr-Id festival. The cause of action for that suit apparently was that the local authorities used to prohibit cow sacrifice in village Pilkhua even on the Bakr-Id occasion presumably because they fe...