Likha Singh vs Emperor - 1933 Supreme(Oudh) 44

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1933 Supreme(Oudh) 44

NANAVUTTY
Likha Singh – Appellant
Versus
Emperor – Respondent

JUDGMENT

Nanavutty, J - This is an application for revision of an order of the learned Assistant Sessions Judge of Hardoi confirming an order of the Sub-divisional Magistrate of Shahabad binding over the applicant Likha Singh to be of good behaviour for a period of three years under Section 110, Criminal P.C.

2. I have heard the learned Counsel for the applicant as also the learned Assistant Government Advocate and for my own satisfaction have gone carefully into the evidence on the record. The order of the learned Assistant Sessions Judge is very sketchy and does not do full justice to the facts of the ease and the evidence on the record. In the present case there is a mass of evidence showing clearly that the applicant Likha Singh has the general reputation of being an habitual thief and burglar and that evidence is clearly admissible under Sub-section 4, Section 117, Criminal P.C. There is also evidence on the record showing that the accused Likha Singh had been suspected of complicity in certain thefts and had bean mentioned in three particular cases in the reports made at the police stations. This evidence of particular instances coupled with the evidence of the prosecution wi

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