{"id":232100,"date":"1878-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1878-04-15T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-empress-vs-gangadhur-bhunjo-and-ors-on-16-april-1878"},"modified":"2018-08-04T17:06:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T11:36:09","slug":"the-empress-vs-gangadhur-bhunjo-and-ors-on-16-april-1878","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-empress-vs-gangadhur-bhunjo-and-ors-on-16-april-1878","title":{"rendered":"The Empress vs Gangadhur Bhunjo And Ors. on 16 April, 1878"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Calcutta High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">The Empress vs Gangadhur Bhunjo And Ors. on 16 April, 1878<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1878) ILR 3 Cal 622<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Prinsep<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Markby, Prinsep<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p> Prinsep, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. These cases have been submitted to us by the Sessions Judge of Midnapore, because sentences of fine have been imposed by the Magistrate of the Division of Contai for breaches of the stamp law contrary to the rule laid down in the case of the Queen v. Nadi Chanel Poddar 24 W.R. Cr. Rul. 1.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. It appears that the Collector authorized this officer, under Section 43 of the Stamp Act, to institute and conduct the prosecution in these cases. Under these circumstances we think that he was not competent also to try them. Any possible inconvenience might have been obviated by the Collector&#8217;s employing the Government pleader or some other person to conduct the prosecution under Section 43. We quash the convictions and sentences, and direct that the fines, if paid, be refunded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calcutta High Court The Empress vs Gangadhur Bhunjo And Ors. on 16 April, 1878 Equivalent citations: (1878) ILR 3 Cal 622 Author: Prinsep Bench: Markby, Prinsep JUDGMENT Prinsep, J. 1. These cases have been submitted to us by the Sessions Judge of Midnapore, because sentences of fine have been imposed by the Magistrate of the [&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-232100","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 v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Empress vs Gangadhur Bhunjo And Ors. on 16 April, 1878 - 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\/the-empress-vs-gangadhur-bhunjo-and-ors-on-16-april-1878\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Empress vs Gangadhur Bhunjo And Ors. on 16 April, 1878 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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