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Court : Chennai
Decided on : Jan-29-1976
Reported in : (1977)2MLJ335
S. Ratnavel Pandian, J.1. The unsuccessful plaintiffs in O.S. No. 247 of 1974 on the file of the Court of the Subordinate Judge, Coimbatore, are the appellants herein. They filed the suit for the recovery of a sum of Rs. 44,287-15 from the respondent-defendant viz., the Southern Railway, towards the damages alleged to have been suffered by them due to the loss of cotton caused on account of the alleged negligence and default of duty on the part of the servants of the defendant railway. It was alleged that the first plaintiff despatched 135 bales of full pressed cotton from Washim Railway Station in Madhya Pradesh State to Pulankinar Railway Station in Madras State (now Tamil Nadu) under Railway Receipts Nos. 725059 and 725058 dated 3rd February, 1964 at railway risk, in pursuance of the order placed by the second plaintiff with the first plaintiff. The third plaintiff viz. the Pioneer Fire and General Insurance Co. had covered the said consignments by issuing a policy in favour of the ...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Decided on : Apr-30-1976
Reported in : 1977CriLJ1700
ORDERRatnavel Pandian, J.1. The complainant in P. R. C. No. 1 of 1974 on the file of the Judicial II Class Magistrate, Tiruthuraipoondi, has preferred this revision petition against the order of the learned Magistrate discharging respondents 1 to 6 (accused 1 to 6) holding that offences alleged against accused 1 to 6 are not triable exclusively by the Court of Session and that it did not warrant their committal Under Section 209(a) Crl. P. C. and that no prima facie case had been made out against accused L to 6 so as to convert the preliminary register case as a calendar case and proceed against the accused.2. The crux of the indictment of the complainant is as follows: The petitioner complainant preferred a private complaint against these respondents for offences Under Sections 147, 460, 307, 342 and 323 I. P. C. alleging that on 17-11-1973, at about 10-30 p. m. while the complainant and one Sivaraj were sleeping in the room in the Lorry Booking office at Nagapattinam, about 50 person...
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