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Kothandarama Pillai and anr. Vs. the Municipal Council Represented by ...
Court: Chennai
Decided on: Apr-03-1933
Reported in: AIR1933Mad782; (1933)65MLJ678
Krishnan Pandalai, J.1. This is an appeal against the decision of the learned Subordinate Judge of Trichinopoly reversing a decision of the District Munsif and awarding to the respondent, the Municipality of Trichinopoly, a decree for Rs. 173-10-0 being arrears of property tax from the second half of the year 1924-1925 to 1927-1928 in respect of premises in the possession of the appellants. The defence was that the property was exempt from the property tax under Section 83(a) of the Madras District Municipalities Act being a choultry as mentioned there. The Municipality contended that the premises are not a choultry. The District Munsif accepted the defence but the learned Judge rejected it. Hence the appeal.2. Section 83 of the District Municipalities Act says that the following buildings and lands shall be exempt from the property tax:(a) Places set apart for public worship and either actually so used or used for no other purpose, choultries, buildings used for educational purposes a...
In Re: Lakshmana Rao, Imbichi Koya
Court: Chennai
Decided on: Apr-03-1933
Reported in: (1934)66MLJ213
Bardswell, J.1. The accused has been found guilty of the murder of a man called Mahomed on 19th November, 1932, and has been sentenced to death. The accused, the deceased and Maraoo, P. W. 6, are all Moplahs engaged in the South Indian Railway Workshop at Golden Rock, and it is there that the murder was committed. The accused, who is a young man aged about 25, already had one wife Mariam Bi Bi, P. W. 4, and about 6 months before the occurrence had married a second wife, Amina Kutti, P. W. 3. He brought her to Golden Rock about three months before the occurrence. The prosecution evidence shows that about ten days before the occurrence the accused happened to come home about 7 or 8 p.m. in the evening and found P. W. 3 talking to P. W. 6 and the deceased. Again, some three days later, he saw these two men dragging P. W. 3 towards them. On the day of the occurrence, which was a Saturday, he called P.W. 6 and the deceased to come to his house. At first only P.W. 6 came, and he and the accu...
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