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Mar 08 1951

Mrs. A. Marthamma Vs. A. Munuswamy and ors.

Court: Chennai

Decided on: Mar-08-1951

Reported in: AIR1951Mad888; (1951)IMLJ694

ORDERPanchapakesa Ayyar, J. 1. This is a petn. for setting aside the discharge of the three accused in C. C. No. 3917 of 1949 on the file of the 5th Presidency Mag., Madras. They had all been complained against Under Sections 494, 495 & 496 read With Section 109, I. P. C. by the petnr. Mrs. Marthammal, & were discharged by the learned Presidency Mag. Under Section 253(1), Cr. P. C.2. The facts were briefly these. The petnr. Mrs. Marthammal, was a Christian School mistress, aged 29, in September 1943, when she met the first accused, Munuswami, a Hindu student just past 18. She fell madly in love with him & began to have sexual intercourse with him. Her father & brother chided her for thus misconducting herself. Later on, she & her father & brother arranged with the first accused that he should become a Christian & marry the petnr. & thus regularise the illicit relationship between him & the petnr. On 9-4-1944, the first accused, Munuswami, was baptised & converted to Christianity by Rev...


Mar 07 1951

Abdullah Vs. State

Court: Chennai

Decided on: Mar-07-1951

Reported in: AIR1951Mad883a; (1951)1MLJ698

ORDERPanchapakesa Ayyar, J. 1. The petnr. in this case is one Abdullah carrying on a petty betel shop business in Gandhi-Irwin Road, Egmore. The prosecution case was that P. W. 1, a Sub-Inspector of Police, searched his shop on 1-10-1949 & seized therefrom 10 bottles (M. O. 1) suspected to contain liquor. On analysis, on 12-12-1949, they were found to contain 1.4 per cent spirits. The petnr's contention before the learned Chief Presidency Mag., who tried him, was that the bottles seized from his shop were bottles called 'Jeeva Bhaskaram', a medicinal preparation exempted by the Madras Govt. from the operation of the Prohibition Act & said to contain 0.2 per cent spirits & manufactured by D. W. 1, K. B Subramaniam, an illiterate man who submitted a bottle of this mixture to the Board of Revenue which tested it & found it contain 0.2 per cent spirits, & exempted it from the operation of the Act. D. W. 2, a neighbouring shopkeeper, corroborated the petnr's version & said that the 10 bottl...


Mar 07 1951

Kandinella Ramayya Vs. the Madras State, Represented by the Registrar ...

Court: Chennai

Decided on: Mar-07-1951

Reported in: AIR1951Mad1003; (1951)2MLJ96

Govinda Menon, J. 1. This is an application for the issue of a Writ of Certiorari under Article 226 of the Constitution for the calling up of the records in R.C. No. 129516/50 F dated 5th De-cember 1950 passed by the Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Madras, superseding the Sripuram Co-operative Society, to quash the order of the Registrar and for passing such other orders as this Court deems fit. 2. As a result of complaints regarding the unsatisfactory working of the co-operative society resulting from acts of mismanagement committed by the Board of Directors, the Deputy Registrar of Co-operative Societies on 21-10-1950 directed the Sub-Registrar of Co-operative Societies to conduct an enquiry into the constitution, working and financial conditions of the society. The Sub-Registrar on the same date issued a notice to the President of the Cooperative Marketting Society under Section 38 of the Madras Co-operative Societies Act of 1932 stating that he had been ordered by the Deputy Re...


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