Inspector Of Police, Kurunegala V. Sabapathy

Present; Jayewardene A.J.  1923

INSPECTOR OF POLICE, KURUNEGALA, v. SABAPATHY.

 80-P. C. Kurunegala, 17,274.

Ordinance No. 11 of 1894-Intermeddling with suitors-Proctor asking Inspector not to prosecute, a person charged with an offence.

When a person who is charged with an offence appeals to a proctor for help and assistance, and the proctor asks the complainant not to prosecute, but to let the man off ; it cannot be said that the proctor intermeddled at all, or that he meddled without " proper excuse."

In the same way a father might interfere on behalf of his son, a master on behalf of his servant, and vice versa. In short, any person interested in a party concerned in any litigation, or in the litigation itself, might do the same without becoming liable to be charged under section 5 of Ordinance No. 11 of 1894.

THE facts are set out in the evidence.

Pereira, K. C. (with him Balasingham and Peri Sunderam), for the accused.-The evidence shows that Casi Lebbe was engaged by accused to milk his cow, and that he appealed to accused for help when he was arrested. The conduct of the accused cannot in the circumsta

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