Orissa Court August 1956 Judgments
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Lakshmidhar Misra Vs. State
Court: Orissa
Decided on: Aug-01-1956
Reported in: AIR1957Ori29; 22(1956)CLT438; 1957CriLJ213
Balakrishna Rao, J.1. The petitioner Lakshmidhar Misra, a Brahmin, was convicted for an offence punishable under Section 366 of the Indian Penal Code for having kidnapped and abducted one Kanchan, a Pana minor girl, with the intention that she may be compelled to marry against her will, and was sentenced to 3 years' rigorous imprisonment by the Assistant Sessions Judge of Keonjhar and on appeal, the said conviction and sentence were confirmed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Mayurbhanj.2. The charge framed against the petitioner is to the effect 'that he on the 25th day of February, 1952 at Ghatgan kidnapped Budhi alias Kanchan a minor girl with intent that she may be compelled to marry against her will or in the alternative that he on the. same day abducted Budhi alias Kanchan a woman with intent that she may be compelled to marry against her will,'Both the Courts found the accused guilty of kidnapping as well as abducting Kanchan with the intention that she may be compelled to marry...
Sudhanshu Sekhar Singh and ors. Vs. State of Orissa
Court: Orissa
Decided on: Aug-01-1956
Reported in: AIR1957Ori90; 22(1956)CLT429
Narasimham, C.J. 1. These are applications under Article 226 of the Constitution by the former Rulers of the States o Sonepur, Talcher and Gangpur, against the orders of the Agricultural Income-tax authorities levying agricultural Income-tax and penalty in respect of the agricultural income derived by them from their private lands. As the points involved in all these applications are identical they were heard together and will be dealt with in one judgment. 2. The Rulers of the former feudatory States of Orissa entered into an agreement known as the merger agreement on the 18th December 1947 with the Government of India ceding full authority and jurisdiction over their States to the Government of India, with effect from the 1st January 1948. Thereupon, the Government of India in exercise of the powers conferred by the Extra Provincial Jurisdiction Act 1947, (Act (XLVII of 1947) took over the administration of these States and delegated to the then Provincial Government of Orissa full p...
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