{"id":23571,"date":"1900-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1900-03-29T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sonai-mugh-vs-queen-empress-on-30-march-1900"},"modified":"2017-06-15T16:24:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T10:54:07","slug":"sonai-mugh-vs-queen-empress-on-30-march-1900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sonai-mugh-vs-queen-empress-on-30-march-1900","title":{"rendered":"Sonai Mugh vs Queen-Empress on 30 March, 1900"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Calcutta High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Sonai Mugh vs Queen-Empress on 30 March, 1900<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1900) ILR 27 Cal 654<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: P A Stanley<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Prinsep, Stanley<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Prinsep and Stanley, JJ.<\/p>\n<p>1. By Act XXII of 1860, Section 1, the tracts of country described in the schedule to that Act and known as the Chittagong Hill Tracts were removed from the jurisdiction of the existing Civil and Criminal Court. Consequently the Court of Sudder Dewany Adawalut had no jurisdiction to hear appeals in respect of sentences passed on conviction of offences committed within those districts. Jurisdiction has not since that date been given either to the Sudder Court or to the High Court. There is, therefore, no jurisdiction in the High Court to hear this appeal. It is accordingly rejected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calcutta High Court Sonai Mugh vs Queen-Empress on 30 March, 1900 Equivalent citations: (1900) ILR 27 Cal 654 Author: P A Stanley Bench: Prinsep, Stanley JUDGMENT Prinsep and Stanley, JJ. 1. By Act XXII of 1860, Section 1, the tracts of country described in the schedule to that Act and known as the Chittagong Hill [&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-23571","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 v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sonai Mugh vs Queen-Empress on 30 March, 1900 - 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\/sonai-mugh-vs-queen-empress-on-30-march-1900\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sonai Mugh vs Queen-Empress on 30 March, 1900 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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