{"id":158159,"date":"1949-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1949-02-16T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kameshwar-dutt-misra-vs-rex-on-17-february-1949"},"modified":"2019-01-05T14:19:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T08:49:27","slug":"kameshwar-dutt-misra-vs-rex-on-17-february-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kameshwar-dutt-misra-vs-rex-on-17-february-1949","title":{"rendered":"Kameshwar Dutt Misra vs Rex. on 17 February, 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Allahabad High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Kameshwar Dutt Misra vs Rex. on 17 February, 1949<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 1949 CriLJ 894<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Malik<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Malik, Bhargava<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT <\/p>\n<p>Malik, C.J.<\/p>\n<p>1. We have heard learned Counsel for be to parties. It is not necessary to treat this as a criminal revision and give any decision on the point. The learned Magistrate had convicted certain accused. The learned Sessions Judge allowed the appeal, In his judgment the learned Sessions Judge made the following remarks about the trying Magistrate<br \/>\n It leaves a bad impression upon my mind, on going, through the evidence and the circumstances of the case, about the capacity of the Honorary Magistrate. He appears to be at pains to record a finding of guilty against the appellant.\n<\/p>\n<p>It is desirable that superior Courts, when deliver, ing judgment, should always use restrained language about inferior Courts so that confidence of the public in the administration of justice might not be shaken. After these remarks so publicly made the learned Magistrate could not inspire any confidence in the minds of the litigant public. If the learned Sessions Judge was of the opinion that the Magistrate was unfit he could have written a separate note and sent it to the authorities concerned. We cannot too strongly deprecate the use of such intemperate language in any judgment which is a public pronouncement and is available to the public at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court Kameshwar Dutt Misra vs Rex. on 17 February, 1949 Equivalent citations: 1949 CriLJ 894 Author: Malik Bench: Malik, Bhargava JUDGMENT Malik, C.J. 1. We have heard learned Counsel for be to parties. It is not necessary to treat this as a criminal revision and give any decision on the point. The learned [&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":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allahabad-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kameshwar Dutt Misra vs Rex. on 17 February, 1949 - 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\/kameshwar-dutt-misra-vs-rex-on-17-february-1949\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kameshwar Dutt Misra vs Rex. on 17 February, 1949 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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