JUDGMENT

1. Their Lordships after referring to the incident and commending the bravery of the Police and the admirably way in which the lower Court and Counsel had handled the case, proceeded:

2. The charges against all the accused were six in number. There was a seventh charge affecting twenty-six only out of the entire number and an eighth charge affecting the same twenty-six and twelve others in addition. These charges are set forth in detail in the opening pages of the judgment under appeal and we do not propose to recapitulate them. They admit, however, of a certain classification. We have already spoken of the crowd which attacked the Police as an assembly of persons moving in a certain formation and animated by a definite purpose. It is an essential part of the case for the prosecution that the nucleus of this crowd consisted of a body of perhaps 1,000, perhaps 1,500 persons, which set forth from the little village of Dumri Khurd, situated some two miles or rather less from Chaura Police Station. It is alleged as against all the accused persons that they formed part of this original assembly at the village of Dumri and that before their departure from that place, they had ente