Bhagabaticharan Patra vs Emperor - 1933 Supreme(Cal) 257

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1933 Supreme(Cal) 257

RANKIN, COSTELLO
Bhagabaticharan Patra – Appellant
Versus
Emperor – Respondent

JUDGMENT

Costello, J. - In this case the accused, Bhagabaticharan Patra, who was a despatcher in the Registered Letters Sorting Branch of the Calcutta General Post Office, was convicted by the Chief Presidency Magistrate, Calcutta, on charges relating to two postal packets. He was originally charged in respect of three packets. The first charge related to a registered letter No. E-l 35, containing two currency notes of Rs. 100 each, which was for despatch to Bombay. The charge was that he had abstracted from that packet both the notes. That is alleged to have taken place on 2nd December 1931. The second charge related to a registered letter No. 617, from which he is said to have abstracted three currency notes of Rs. 10 each on 7th December 1931, and the last charge related to a registered letter No. 590, from which he is said to have abstracted ten currency notes of Rs. 10 each on 26th December 1931, He was convicted in respect of the first and the third charges and acquitted with regard to the second charge, no evidence having been put before the Court in respect of the package, to which that charge related, that the money said to be the contents thereof was in fact despatched in

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