Kerala Court November 1954 Judgments

Thanuvan Retnakaran Vs. State

Court: Kerala

Reported in: 1955CriLJ851

ORDERGovinda Pillai, J.1. These petitions are by the appellants in Cri. Appeals Ti and 83 of 1954 respectively, for certificates under Article 134(c). Constitution of India that these are fit cases for appeal to the Supreme Court. They were accused Nos. 1 and 2 in Sessions Case No. 5 of 1954 on the file of the Additional Sessions Judge, Trivandrum, and they were tried and convicted for offences Under Sections 302 and 364, IPC They were sentenced to transportation for life Under Section 302 and for rigorous imprisonment for five years under the latter section. The sentences were to run concurrently. They had also been sentenced to pay fine under the above sections. In appeal we confirmed the conviction and sentence except as regards the imposition of fine.2. The act alleged against them was that they put to death a girl by name Sumathi who was on terms of intimacy with accused 1 and who became pregnant thereby. It was held by the court below and by us that accused 1 had promised to prov...