Gujarat Court December 1954 Judgments

Kanbi Babu Vs. the State

Court: Gujarat

Reported in: 1955CriLJ1522

Shah, C.J.1. The appellant Babu alias Kurji Valji is convicted of murder and robbery Under Sections 302 and 397, Penal Code by the Additional Sessions Judge, Gondal, and sentenced to transportation for life and seven years' rigorous imprisonment respectively, the sentences being ordered to run concurrently. The deceased Manu Ramji was aged about 12 years and lived at Gomta with his brother Bhikhu and an elder widowed sister Jivati. On the day of the offence, 1-4-1954, he attended school and after returning from school at 11 A. M. he took his meals and then went . out. Jivati was not at the house then, but on her returning in the afternoon she enquired about Manu since she wished to take him along to Gondal for seeing a circus, but was told that Manu had gone out and so she went in the company of some women and returned to Gomta the next day at about 11 A. M. Bhikhu and his wife Diwali were under the impression that he might have gone to Gondal with Jivati, but as he was not with Jivati...