Gujarat Court March 1953 Judgments

Kanbi Bachu and anr. Vs. the State

Court: Gujarat

Reported in: 1954CriLJ378

Shah, C.J.1. This is an appeal by the accused against their conviction for the offence of murder and robbery by the Sessions Judge of Sorath. The accused were charged with having taken with them the deceased Mulji, a boy aged about 15, on the night of 10-2-1952 and then robbed him of gold 'champwas' and 'phools' (ear ornaments) and murdered him on a cart track leading to village Madhopur, at a place about hundred paces from the gate of village Surwa, to which the deceased and the accused belonged. The news of Mulji's death having reached his brother Mohan the next morning information was lodged at the police station at Madhopur. In the course of the investigation that followed accused 2 produced in the afternoon of 12-2-1952 the champwas and phools from his house and shortly thereafter accused 1 produced from a dung-hill in the 'Fall' of his house a 'Pachhedi' having blood stains and a hatchet, which had been concealed behind stones under a roof in his 'Fall' and which also was blood s...