{"id":154520,"date":"1920-07-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1920-07-27T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/nepal-bagdi-vs-emperor-on-28-july-1920"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T16:16:17","slug":"nepal-bagdi-vs-emperor-on-28-july-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/nepal-bagdi-vs-emperor-on-28-july-1920","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Bagdi vs Emperor on 28 July, 1920"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Calcutta High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Nepal Bagdi vs Emperor on 28 July, 1920<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 60 Ind Cas 671<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Chatterjea, Cuming<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1. This is raferenoe by the learned Sessions Judge of Burdwan recommending that the conviction of the accused under Section 457 read with Section 380,Indian Penal Code, and the sentence of rigorons imprisonment for three months passed upon him be set aside on the ground that he was not allowed to summon witnesses for the prosecution to cross-examine them.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. It appears that the witnesses for the prosecution were not cross-examined before the petitioner was called upon to enter upon his defense; he was tried summarily. But in trials under Chapter XXII, the procedure prescribed for warrant liases shall be followed in warrant cases. This was a warrant case. The accused, therefore, waa entitled to have process issued for compelling the attendance of witnesses for the prosecution for cross-examination and he applied accordingly to the trying Magistrate. The application was refused and the accused convicted and went (sic.) stated above.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. The conviction and sentence passed upon him are accordingly set aside and we direct that the case he re-tried by some Magistrate other than the Magistarate who tried him.\n<\/p>\n<p>4. The accused will continue on the same bail as before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calcutta High Court Nepal Bagdi vs Emperor on 28 July, 1920 Equivalent citations: 60 Ind Cas 671 Bench: Chatterjea, Cuming JUDGMENT 1. This is raferenoe by the learned Sessions Judge of Burdwan recommending that the conviction of the accused under Section 457 read with Section 380,Indian Penal Code, and the sentence of rigorons imprisonment for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calcutta-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nepal Bagdi vs Emperor on 28 July, 1920 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/nepal-bagdi-vs-emperor-on-28-july-1920\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nepal Bagdi vs Emperor on 28 July, 1920 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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