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Emperor Vs. Khalpa Ranchod
Court: Mumbai
Decided on: Jun-14-1916
Reported in: (1916)18BOMLR789; 36Ind.Cas.581
Basil Scott, Kt., C.J.1. We have before us a reference by the Political Agent of Mewas Estates in West Khandesh in which we have to decide whether a sentence of death passed by the Agent upon the accused should be confirmed. We have also before us an appeal by the accused against the sentence. The accused is stated to be a resident of Boripada in the Nala State, taluka Taloda, District West Khandesh, and the murder is said to have been committed at Boripada, Nala State, and the charge is framed accordingly.2. The question is whether the Agent for the Mewas Estates has jurisdiction in the case of a murder committed at Boripada, Act XI of 1846 recites that whereas it has been deemed expedient to exempt from the jurisdiction of the civil and criminal Courts of the Bombay Presidency certain portions of the Purganas of Nandurbar, etc., in the Province of Khandesh, it is enacted that so much of Appendix A of Regulation XXIX of 1827 of the Bombay Code as declares the villages contained in the...
Emperor Vs. Rachapa Gurappa Hattarvat
Court: Mumbai
Decided on: Jun-05-1916
Reported in: AIR1916Bom64(1); 37Ind.Cas.491
1. This is an appeal by the Government of Bombay against an order of the first class Magistrate of Bail-Hongal, who discharged the accused after investigation of a charge of possessing 2,300 lbs of crackers under the Indian Explosives Act, whereas his license only entitled him to possess 200 lbs. The accused imported Chinese crackers of various kinds, and the 2,300 lbs with which we are now concerned are entirely crackers spoken of in the evidence as lavangi crackers or patakhas, that is to say, clove-shaped crackers. They are strings of very small sticks hardly longer than a clove, each of which, when ignited, emits a small report. The Governor-General-in-Council has issued rules under the Explosives Act, under Section 35 of which an explosive shall not be possessed except under and in accordance with the conditions of the license granted under the rules. It is provided, however, by Rule 3 that nothing in the rules shall apply to the possession of toy fire-works such as paper caps for...
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