Madhya Pradesh Court May 1961 Judgments

Kanhaiyalal Dongarwal Vs. Sugansingh and anr.

Court: Madhya Pradesh

Reported in: 1961CriLJ875

H.R. Krishnan, J.1. The petitioner Kanhayalal Dongarwal is an advocate usually residing at Neemuch and a leading member of the Socialist Party. He was arrested on the 16th. January 1959, in course of a demonstration before the collectorate at Mandsaur, by a number of people calling themselves 'satyagrahis' in a movement sponsored by the Socialist Party. The arrest was under Section 151, Criminal Procedure Code as according to the Station house officer Sugansingh (opposite party No. 1), all of them including the petitioner were designing to commit a cognizable offence, namely, forming an unlawful assembly, and committing house trespass into the office of the Collector, without any legitimate business there, and with the intention of causing annoyance to those on duty there. After the arrest, the petitioner was taken in a police lorry to the police station and was on the 17th produced before a magistrate. Later on, he Was proceeded against under Section 107, Criminal Procedure Code; and ...