Kolkata Court September 1917 Judgments

Baldeo Das Tansuk Das Vs. Mohamed Inamul Huq Administrator to the Esta ...

Court: Kolkata

Reported in: 43Ind.Cas.826

1. This Rule was directed against an order of the learned District Judge of Darjeeling, by which he revoked the sanction granted by the Subordinate Judge of that District for the prosecution of one Inamul Huq on a charge of giving false evidence. The sanction for the intended prosecution was based on a series of statements, which in the, view of the Subordinate Judge who granted the sanction were irreconcilable. We find that these statements were made in the course of a cross-examination which continued for more than a day before a Commissioner appointed by the Subordinate Judge. It does not appear to us that they are in fact absolutely irreconcilable, and we further find that in his subsequent examination on the day following the day on which these statements were made the witness has supplied explanations which go far to reconcile them. That being so, we are of opinion that in revoking the sanction granted by the Sub. ordinate Judge, then District Judge exercised a sound discretion a...