Kolkata Court May 1955 Judgments
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Nani Gopal Deb and anr. Vs. Bhima Charan Rakshit
Court: Kolkata
Decided on: May-04-1955
Reported in: AIR1956Cal32,1956CriLJ214,59CWN688
J.P. Mitter, J. 1.This rule is directed against an order under Section 522(1), Cr. P. C. passed by a learned Presidency Magistrate. 2. The petitioners were found guilty under Section 448, I. P. G. under the following circumstances: 3. In respect of certain rooms the landlord of the premises concerned obtained ex parte decrees in three ejectment suits in the Court of Small Causes, Calcutta. In execution of the said decrees the landlord obtained vacant possession of the said rooms which were then padlocked. In the absence of the landlord or any of his men the petitioners broke open the padlocks and took possession of the rooms. They were found guilty of trespass and each was sentenced to detention till the rising of the Court and to pay a fine of Rs. 200/- in default to R. I. for three months. By the same order the learned Magistrate directed the present petitioners to restore possession of the rooms to the landlord within a month of the date of the order. It is against this order under ...
Chen Shankar Lal Shankar Jani Vs. United Bank of India Ltd. and anr.
Court: Kolkata
Decided on: May-03-1955
Reported in: AIR1955Cal569,60CWN664
R.P. Mookerjee, J. 1.The plaintiff-respondent Bank advanced Rupees thirty thousand to the appellant on the security of certain properties and a running business under the name and style of Jaysree Glass Works. One of the terms stipulated was that the interest would be paid monthly and the entire principal would be repaid within one year. Liberty was given in the mortgage bond to the mortgagee entering into possession of the mortgaged properties in default of any one of the several conditions mentioned in that deed. The mortgage bond was executed on 27-6-1946. The mortgagee entered into possession on 2-7-1947, on the expiry of the period of one year as mentioned in the bond. 2. The plaintiff brought this suit on 20-2-1948, for enforcing the mortgage. On behalf of the defendant various objections were raised but in the present appeal only one point has been urged. It is contended that as the mortgagee has entered into possession, he is liable to render accounts and no final decree can be...
Sital Chandra Maity Vs. the State
Court: Kolkata
Decided on: May-02-1955
Reported in: AIR1956Cal82,1956CriLJ509
J.P. Mitter, J. 1. The appellant was tried upon a charge of murder by the learned Sessions Judge of Hooghly sitting with a Jury. By ' a majority verdict of 8 to 1 the Jury found the appellant guilty under Part I of Section 304, Penal Code. The learned Judge accepted that verdict, convicted the appellant of the relative offence and sentenced him to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 10 years.2. The prosecution case against the appellant was as follows: The appellant was brought up by the deceased Angurbala who was his mother's sister. The deceased also brought up a girl named Kanchanbala. Both the appellant and Kanchanbala grew up as brother and sister and were reared by the deceased as her own children. The deceased possessed a fair amount of landed properties Including a house at Tarakeswar.When Kanchanbala grew up she was married to a man called Karnala Kanta. When the appellant came to age, he too was married, and at the material time he had a wife and children. The only home the appe...
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