Andhra Pradesh Court January 1956 Judgments
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In Re: Irala Palle Ramiah and ors.
Court: Andhra Pradesh
Decided on: Jan-31-1956
Reported in: 1957CriLJ815
Chandra Reddy, J.1. The three accused, appellants herein, were put up for trial for the murder of one Golla Peddabba alias Venkatesu Mandadi, that accurred on the night of 8th May 1955 before the Sessions Judge, Chittoor. The 1st accused was charged with the murder directly while the other two under Section 302 wad with Section 109 I. P. C. The Sessions Judge found them guilty as charged and sentenced the 1st accused to death and the other two to transportation for life.2. The prosecution case, shortly stated is this:3. The deceased Peddabba was living in the village of Kanipakapatnam with his old. mother Mangamma, P. W. 12 and his wife P. W. 9., The three accused belong to the same village accused 1 and 3 being of Vannia caste while the 2nd accused is a washerman, The 1st accused became intimate with P. W. 9 and met her frequently. P. W. 9 did not care for the advice and remonstrances of her mother-in-law, P. W. 12. When Peddabba came to know of it, he chastised and beat her but this ...
In Re: B. Matameswara Rao
Court: Andhra Pradesh
Decided on: Jan-16-1956
Reported in: 1957CriLJ44
ORDERBhimasankaram, J.1. This is an application made by the accused in C. C. No. 1295 of 1954 on the file of the Stationary Sub-Magistrate's Court, Vijayawada under Section 561A, Criminal P. C. to quash the proceedings in the case. The accused stands charged under Section 419, Penal Code before the Stationary Sub-Magistrate. The case against him is that on 9-8-1964 he was found in a railway compartment at the Vijayawada railway station and on being asked by the ticket collector for his ticket, he produced a season ticket issued in the name of Mr. G. H. Bhatia and that he pretended to be Mr. Bhatia.2. The petitioner himself has argued the case in. person and he has several technical objections to the legality of the prosecution and I shall consider them seriatim.3. The first contention is stated as follows : The proceedings were instituted in the first instance by a complaint being presented by the prosecuting ticket Examiner Vijayawada to the Honorary Railway Ist Class Magistrate, Vija...
In Re: Bokkasam Krishnayya
Court: Andhra Pradesh
Decided on: Jan-09-1956
Reported in: 1957CriLJ813
ORDERBhimasankaram, J.1. These two criminal revision, oases are against orders of acquittal. They were presented to this Court on 14.12.1955. They were adjourned last week as the learned Advocate for the petitioners represented that he would like to convert them into Crl. Appeals. He has, however, made no attempt to convert them into criminal appeals and it is obvious that he cannot do so because under the new Criminal Procedure Code as amended, an application for special leave to appeal must be filed first in such cases under Section 417, Sub-section (3). It may be noted that these revision cases were filed after the expiry of 60 daya from the date of the order which is the period limited by Sub-section (4) to Section 417 for the presentation of an application for the grant of special leave. Mr. Sarma contends that there is discrimination between the State and the 'complainant (1) in insisting upon the latter obtaining special leave to appeal before presenting an appeal while there is...
In Re: Boddu Sanyasi Patrudu and ors.
Court: Andhra Pradesh
Decided on: Jan-09-1956
Reported in: 1957CriLJ939
Chandra Reddy, J.1. Twenty two persons were tried by the Sessions Judge of Visakhapatnum for the offence of dacoity. Of them, accused 1 and 3 to 5, 7 to 13, 15 and 16 were convicted and the rest were acquitted. All the appellants except A-9 were convicted under Section 395 read with Section 398, I. P. C. Accused S and O were awarded seven years rigorous imprisonment each and the rest four years rigorous imprisonment each. Accused 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 15 and 16 have preferred C. A. 81/1055 while accused 8 to 13 have preferred the other appeal. There was a dacoity in the house of a rich Vysya family known as the Pasumarthi family consisting of three brothers on the night of 2-11-1934 in the village of Medicherla in the course of which some promissory notes, lease-deeds, jewels and cash were stolen.This family is said to have grown rich at the expense of the village community. They were usurious money-lenders who indulged in black-marketing and rack-renting & other shady transaction & thus accu...
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