Kerala Court April 1953 Judgments
State Vs. P.S. Sivarama Iyer
Court: Kerala
Decided on: Apr-11-1953
Reported in: 1953CriLJ1600
M.S. Menon, J.1. These are appeals by the State against the acquittal of the accused in C.C. Nos. 660 and 661 of 1951 on the file of the Second Class Magistrate of Kanayannore. The charge against the accused in both the cases was that he violated Sections 4(1)(d) and 8, Travancore-Cochin Vehicles Taxation Act, 14 of 1950, by putting on the road T.C.C. 1634 (C.C. No. 660 of 1951) and T.C. No. 1635 (C.C. No. 661 of 1951) on 23.7.51.2. The user of the vehicles on the date in question was not disputed and the only defence in the two cases, as summarised by the lower Court, was:That the bus in question has been granted permit to be treated as a reserve bus, that as per Government Notification T 4-7879/49/PWC dated 20.1.1951 issued in the exercise of powers conferred on the Government under Section 11, Travancore Cochin Vehicles Taxation Act, 14 of 1950, Government have exempted reserve buses from payment of vehicles tax, that the exemption once granted is absolute and unconditional and obta...
Tag this Judgment!State Vs. Allapicha
Court: Kerala
Decided on: Apr-01-1953
Reported in: 1953CriLJ1814
Vithayathil, J.1. The State is the appellant. The accused in this case was tried by the Kottar First Class Magistrate for offences punishable under Sections 3, 14(1) and 17 of Act 5 of 1950 read with Sections 7, 17(a) and 20(1) of the Paddy Control Order dated 12.4.1950. The prosecution case is that the accused was found in unlawful possession of 60 puckers of table rice near the Park View Hotel at Nagercoil at about 1 P.M. on 16.10.1950. It was alleged that the rice had been purchased by the accused from some shops in Trivandrum for being sold in the black market at Nagercoil. Five witnesses were examined for the prosecution and a charge was framed against the accused by the learned Magistrate for the offences mentioned above. The accused pleaded guilty to the charge. The learned Magistrate, however, discussed the evidence in the case after raising the points for consideration and convicted the accused of the offences with which he was charged, and sentenced I him to undergo simple im...
Tag this Judgment!K.N. Vijayan Vs. the State
Court: Kerala
Decided on: Apr-01-1953
Reported in: 1953CriLJ1613
Koshi, C.J.1. This case has come before us in appeal & under Section 374, Criminal P.C. for confirmation of the capital sentence passed on the appellant Vijayan, son of Chandraseri Narayanan Vaidan of Mattancherry for the murder of a boy Swaminathan, aged about 14 who was a student of Form III in the T.D. High School, Mattancherry. Besides murder the appellant also stood charged with the commission of offences punishable under Sections 392 and 201, Indian Penal Code viz., robbery and causing disappearance of the evidence of murder. The learned Sessions Judge of Anjikaimal who held the trial with the aid of four assessors found the accused guilty both of murder and robbery and passed the sentence of death in respect of the former offence. In view of the imposition of the death penalty no separate sentence was awarded with respect to robbery. As for the charge under Section 201, the learned Judge took the view that as the appellant was found guilty of murder the consideration of the ques...
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