Mumbai Court May 1933 Judgments
In Re: Krishnarao Ramchandra
Court: Mumbai
Decided on: May-17-1933
Reported in: AIR1933Bom409; (1933)35BOMLR845
Baker, J.1. This is an application by one Krishnarao Ramchandra Haldipur of Karwar for revision of the order passed by the District Magistrate, Kanara, on December 17, 1932, under Section 4(1) of the Special Powers Ordinance X of 1932 directing his brother Subrao Ramchandra Haldipur to report himself daily at 9 a.m. and 7 p. m. to the Police Sub-Inspector of Karwar, for one month from the date of the order, the same order having been directed to remain in force until further orders by the Government of Bombay, dated December 28, 1932, and praying that the said orders be set aside and the proceedings taken against his brother Subrao under Sections 87 and 88 of the Criminal Procedure Code may be quashed and for an interim stay of the criminal proceedings pending disposal of this application.2. The facts of this application, which are somewhat unusual, are that the petitioner's brother Subrao Ramchandra Haldipur was convicted under the Ordinance in January 1932 and sentenced to one year's...
Tag this Judgment!Sir Hukum Chand Vs. Maharaj Bahadur Singh
Court: Mumbai
Decided on: May-12-1933
Reported in: (1933)35BOMLR990
John Wallis, J.1. This case is the result of further disputes between the two sects of Jain as to their rights of worship on Parasnath hill. As so much turns on the beliefs now entertained by the whole Jain community with reference to the sacred character of this hill, their Lordships will begin by citing the opening paragraphs of the judgment delivered by Lord Phillimore a few years ago in Maharaj Bahadur Singh v. Seth Hukum Chand (1925) 24 A.L.J. 100 in which this subject is most felicitously dealt with (p. 100) :-The Jains recognise 24 highly saintly personages-men who have attained salvation or Nirvana, who are called Tirthankars (finders of the ford, across the river of death). These four and twenty are counted in many respects as higher than the gods or some of the gods in the Hindu Pantheon.Twenty of them are believed to have attained Nirvana in the present cycle of the world's history upon the Hill Parasnath in the district of Hazaribagh in Bengal, with the result that the hill...
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