Guwahati Court July 1960 Judgments

S.B. Choudhury and anr. Vs. I.P. Changkakati and anr.

Court: Guwahati

Reported in: 1960CriLJ1551

JUDGEMENTG. Mehrotra, J.1. This is a revision Under Section 439 of the Criminal Procedure Code on behalf of the petitioners who are accused in a trial pending before the Sessions Judge, Lower Assam Division, Gauhati. The case was started against' the petitioners on a complaint had by the complainant opposite party Under Section 198 B of the Cr.PC on the allegation that the petitioners committed the offence of defamation against Sri Moinul Haque Choudbury, Minister to the Government of Assam in charge of Food, Agriculture, Veterinary, Co operative etc. The petitioners were summoned by the Sessions Judge Under Sections 500 and 501, Indian Penal Code. Charges were framed against the petitioner on 18th July 1959 after examining a number of witnesses. The petitioners are alleged to have published Ext. 2, a sbooklet under the captions 'The Press and Sri Moinul Haque Choudhury' and Ext. 28(1), the editorial under the caption 'To our M. L. As.' published in the 'Shillong Times' dated 3rd Augus...

Mahmmad Meah Vs. Secretary to the Political Department of the Union Te ...

Court: Guwahati

Reported in: 1961CriLJ291

1. The Petitioner Mahamrnad Meah has filed this application to quash the orders of the 2nd Respondent, the District Magistrate of Tripura, Annexures A and F dated 19-9-1958 and 24-12-1953 respectively directing him to leave India with his family.2. Annexure A is a notice dated 19-9-1958 in which the Petitioner was stated to be a Pakistani national and a foreigner as defined in the Foreigners Act, 1946 and he was directed to leave India within a period of one month from the date of service. The Petitioner submitted a petition to the District Magistrate Annexure B stating that he was not a foreigner, that he was born in Agartala, 16 years previously and that his father was a permanent resident of Agartala and died 15 years previously.Thereupon the District Magistrate directed Sri K. P. Datta, first class Magistrate to hold an enquiry. The said Magistrate held an enquiry and came to the conclusion that there was no documentary evidence in support of the Petitioner's claim that he was an I...

Mahmmad Meah Vs. Secretary to the Political Department of the Union Te ...

Court: Guwahati

Reported in: 1961CriLJ291

ORDERT.N.R. Tirumalpad, J.1. The Petitioner Mahamrnad Meah has filed this application to quash the orders of the 2nd Respondent, the District Magistrate of Tripura, Annexures A and F dated 19-9-1958 and 24-12-1953 respectively directing him to leave India with his family.2. Annexure A is a notice dated 19-9-1958 in which the Petitioner was stated to be a Pakistani national and a foreigner as defined in the Foreigners Act, 1946 and he was directed to leave India within a period of one month from the date of service. The Petitioner submitted a petition to the District Magistrate Annexure B stating that he was not a foreigner, that he was born in Agartala, 16 years previously and that his father was a permanent resident of Agartala and died 15 years previously.Thereupon the District Magistrate directed Sri K. P. Datta, first class Magistrate to hold an enquiry. The said Magistrate held an enquiry and came to the conclusion that there was no documentary evidence in support of the Petitione...

Anu Meah Vs. the Tripura Administration

Court: Guwahati

T.N.R. Tirumalpad, J.C.1. The appellant Anu Meah alias pichainna was convicted by the Sessions Judge in Criminal Session Trial No. 7 of 1960 under Section 302 I. P. C. and sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of one Abdul Majid. He has filed this appeal against the said conviction and sentence.2. The case against the appellant rested mainly on the evidence of P. W. 3 Safia Khatun, wife of one Sarafat Ali stated to be an eye-witness to the occurrence. The occurrence is said to have taken place in the court-yard of the house of P. W. 3 in Jhaguriamura. P. W. 3 was living at the time with her husband and children in the house in the western Bhiti. She had two tenants Safia Khatun, wife of one Sundar Ali and her sister Rahela who was also a married woman but living away from her husband. They were living in the southern house in the eastern Bhiti. The two sisters were said to be women of loose morals and many men including the appellant, the deceased Abdul Majid, Abdul Jabbar...

Thokchom Ningol Heisnam Ongbi Bhani Devi W/O H. Baruniton Singh Vs. H. ...

Court: Guwahati

T.N.R. Tirumalpad, J.C.1. Criminal Revision No. 10 of 1960 is filed by the petitioners against the dismissal by the learned Sessions Judge of Criminal Appeal No. 39 of 1958 and the confirmation of the conviction of the petitioners by the Magistrate in Criminal Case No. 101 of 1957 under Section 494, I.P.C. Criminal Revision; Case No. 8 of 1960 is filed by the complainant against the order of the Sessions Judge rejecting Criminal Revision No. 32 of 1958 and confirming the order of the Magistrate in Criminal Case No. 10 of 1957 by which he treated the two accused persons who were convicted by him under Section 494, I.P.C. as first offenders and released them on probation of good conduct on execution of bonds for Rs. 500/- each.2. The complainant Bhani Devi, the petitioner in Criminal Revision No. 8 of 1960 married Heisnam Baruniton Singh, the first petitioner In Criminal Revision No. 10 of 1960 and the first accused in the Criminal Case on 9-6-1952. Baruniton Singh at that time was a st...