Court : Himachal Pradesh
Decided on : Jun-16-1952
Reported in : AIR1952HP81
Chowdhry, J.C.1. Ranjit Singh, aged 26, and Smt. Kalawati, aged 30, were committed to Sessions to take their trial for the murder of the latter's husband Kunwar Bikram Singh. The committal of Ranjit Singh was under Section 302 and that of Kalawati for the abetment of the offence under the said section read with Section 114, Penal Code.2. The learned Sessions Judge of Mahasu tried them for the said offences, and while he found Ranjit Singh guilty under Section 302, Penal Code and sentenced him to death, he acquitted Kalawati of the offence charged but found her guilty under Section 201, Penal Code, and sentenced her to rigorous imprisonment for five years.3. Ranjit Singh and Kalawati have appealed against their convictions, the State Government has appealed against the acquittal of Kalawati of the charge under Section 302, read with Section 114, Penal Code, and the Sessions Judge has submitted the proceedings for confirmation of the sentence of death passed on Ranjit Singh.3a. The decea...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Himachal Pradesh
Decided on : Jul-14-1952
Reported in : AIR1952HP68
Chowdhry, J.C. 1. Haria and Kirpa were tried by the learned Additional Sessions Judge of Mahasu and Sirmur for having committed criminal trespass into the house of an old man aged 77, named Panu, in village Dilli, tehsil Theog, on the night between 4th and 5th of May 1948, murdered him and committed robbery of his ornaments and household effects. They were acquitted of the charge of murder but convicted of the offences in respect of the other two charges under Section 394 and the second part of Section 451, Penal Code. Each of them has been sentenced to transportation for life and a fine of Rs. 300, or further two years' rigorous imprisonment in default of payment of fine, under the former section, and to three years, rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 200, or one year's further rigorous imprisonment in default of payment of fine, under the latter, the sentences running concurrently. Both have appealed to this Court.2. The case presents certain special features the adverse bearing...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Himachal Pradesh
Decided on : Sep-20-1952
Reported in : AIR1953HP1
Chowdhry, J.C. 1. Dissu, aged 25 years, of village Sanhol, pargana Bakan, district Chamba, was challenged under Section 302, I. P. C., for causing the death of his wife Mt. Chelo, aged 22 years, at his own house in the afternoon of 12-12-1951. The Magistrate concerned committed him to Sessions to take his trial for an offence punishable under paragraph 2 of Section 304, I. P. C., and the learned Sessions Judge has convicted him under Section 325, I. P. C., and sentenced him to five years' rigorous imprisonment. Against that conviction and sentence Dissu has filed the present appeal.2. The facts, as found from the testimony of P. W. 3 Musahibu, who was an eye-witness to the occurrence and is the appellant's mother's brother, and from the confession of the appellant himself to which he stuck in the main to the last, are not in dispute. The appellant had acquired Mt. Chelo for his wife by exchange. The bargain was however not a happy one, for the woman was a termagant. A day before the oc...
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