Kolkata Court September 1919 Judgments

Emperor Vs. Pramatha Nath Bagchi and anr.

Court: Kolkata

Reported in: 55Ind.Cas.282

1. This is a reference under Section 307, Criminal Procedure Code.2. The facts of the case are shortly these: On the 11th October 1918 there was a fire in the out-offices of the house of the Post Master of the Sub-Post Office at Rajbari. The fire was very soon extinguished. The Post Master's case is that at the time when the fire broke out, he was in his office and there were on his table 12 registered articles, that when be left the office, he asked the accused Promotho, who was a probationer in his office, to take care- of these articles and that he went to the place where the fire had occurred and came back within a very few minutes and found that the registered articles were all missing. He asked Promotho, who denied any knowledge of them. He then sent Promotho to lodge information at the Thana, though he says that he had his suspicions' that Promotho had taken possession of those articles. As against the accused Hemanta it is said that he was in the Post Office verandah shortly be...