{"id":193567,"date":"1955-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1955-02-01T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/nimba-and-ors-vs-state-of-mysore-on-2-february-1955"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:26:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:56:53","slug":"nimba-and-ors-vs-state-of-mysore-on-2-february-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/nimba-and-ors-vs-state-of-mysore-on-2-february-1955","title":{"rendered":"Nimba And Ors. vs State Of Mysore on 2 February, 1955"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Karnataka High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Nimba And Ors. vs State Of Mysore on 2 February, 1955<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: AIR 1955 Kant 112, AIR 1955 Mys 112, 1955 CriLJ 1083<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Padmanabhiah<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p> 1. This is a Revision Petition preferred by the Petitioners-Accused against the order of the learned Special Second Magistrate, Shimoga, in C.C. 545\/54, refusing permission to their Advocate Sri Bhavanishankara Rao to appear for and defend them.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The facts that have given rise to this petition are briefly as follows : The Petitioners are under-trial prisoners in C.C. No. 545\/54 on the file of the learned Special Second Magistrate, Shimoga. At a late stage of the enquiry, the Petitioners wanted to engage Sri Bhavanishankara Rao as their counsel to defend them in the case. The said Sri Bhavanishankara Rao was examined as P.W. 58 in the case for the prosecution. Therefore he filed an application to the learned Magistrate praying for permission to allow him to appear for and defend the accused. The learned Magistrate refused the said permission on the ground that as Sri Bhavanishankara Rao had been examined as a witness for the prosecution, it was not desirable to permit him to defend the accused. It is against this order that this Revision Petition is filed.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. I am of opinion that the order of the learned<br \/>\nMagistrate cannot he sustained. There is no rule<br \/>\nof law that an Advocate who has appeared as a<br \/>\nwitness for the prosecution in a particular case<br \/>\nshould not appear or be allowed to appear for the<br \/>\naccused in that case. If this proposition is accepted, it may lead to very serious and unexpected consequences, because the prosecution, if they<br \/>\nso desire to deprive an accused of the services of<br \/>\nan Advocate (whom he wants to defend), may cite<br \/>\nhim as a witness for the prosecution and examine<br \/>\nhim and thus deny the accused the services of the<br \/>\nconcerned Advocate. It is an inherent right of an<br \/>\naccused to have a counsel of his own choice. No<br \/>\ndouht it has also to be conceded that Courts have<br \/>\ngot an inherent power to refuse permission to a<br \/>\ncounsel or to require him to withdraw from a<br \/>\nparticular case. What the Courts have to consider<br \/>\nin such cases is whether the trial would be embarrassed by permitting an Advocate to appear for<br \/>\nthe accused. If the Court comes to that conclusion, then permission should be refused; if not<br \/>\npermission should be granted.\n<\/p>\n<p>4. In this case, it is true that Sri Bhavanishankara Rao has been examined as a witness for the prosecution. He has been examined as P.W. 58. Further a copy of his deposition has also been filed. A perusal of his deposition goes to show that he is not a witness for the occurrence. He has sworn to some litigation between some of the witnesses that have been examined in the case. I do not know how his giving such evidence would embarrass the trial. This aspect of the case has not been considered by the learned Magistrate, nor has he given a finding to that effect.\n<\/p>\n<p>5. A case reported in &#8212; &#8216;Emperor v. Dadu Ram&#8217;, AIR 1939 Bom 150 (A), was cited before the learned Magistrate and that case seems to support the contention urged on the side of the petitioners. The learned Magistrate has attempted to distinguish that case on facts. Whatever it may be, the principle enunciated in that decision may be made applicable to the facts of the present case. The principles propounded in the course of this order are fully supported by the decision referred to above. The leaned Assistant Advocate General rightly conceded the correctness of the proposition of law laid down in that case. I am of opinion that, under these circumstances, the order of the learned Magistrate cannot be supported.\n<\/p>\n<p>6. In the result, the order of the learned Magistrate refusing permission to Sri Bhavanishankara Rao to appear for the accused is set aside, and this Revision Petition is allowed.\n<\/p>\n<p>7. Revision allowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka High Court Nimba And Ors. vs State Of Mysore on 2 February, 1955 Equivalent citations: AIR 1955 Kant 112, AIR 1955 Mys 112, 1955 CriLJ 1083 Bench: Padmanabhiah ORDER 1. This is a Revision Petition preferred by the Petitioners-Accused against the order of the learned Special Second Magistrate, Shimoga, in C.C. 545\/54, refusing permission [&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":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-karnataka-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nimba And Ors. vs State Of Mysore on 2 February, 1955 - 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\/nimba-and-ors-vs-state-of-mysore-on-2-february-1955\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nimba And Ors. vs State Of Mysore on 2 February, 1955 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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