JUDGMENT

1. Between the 10th of December and the 17th of December 1919 the District of Kumaun suffered a series of dacoities. The first was at Hasanpur Road on the evening of the 10th of December. The second at Horipara later on the same night. The third at Satuia on the 12th. The fourth at Gangapur on the 15th. And the fifth at Paohpera on the 17th of December. Five men ware said to be impliActed in the dasoitiea. As a result, Ram Sahai and Nathua were tried for the Hasanpur dacoity and sentenced to seven years' rigorous imprisonment. For the second dacoity Ram Sahai, Nathua, Rurkoo and Parshadi were tried, and as this was a dacoity attended with circumstances of great cruelty they were sentenced each to 30 stripes. For the third dacoity, that of Satuia, the same four persons were put upon their trial with the addition of a fifth by name Mangali Ram Sahai, Nathua, Rurkoo and Mangali were tried for a fourth dacoity and sentenced as regards the first three to ten. years' rigorous imprisonment and as regards Mangali to 30 stripes. In that dacoity again great cruelty was practised. In the fifth dacoity, Ram Sahai and Parshadi were tried and sentenced to seven years' rigorous imprisonme