{"id":33315,"date":"1952-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1952-03-26T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-s-namjundaiah-vs-setti-chikka-thippanna-on-27-march-1952"},"modified":"2017-08-03T01:08:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T19:38:20","slug":"k-s-namjundaiah-vs-setti-chikka-thippanna-on-27-march-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-s-namjundaiah-vs-setti-chikka-thippanna-on-27-march-1952","title":{"rendered":"K.S. Namjundaiah vs Setti Chikka Thippanna on 27 March, 1952"},"content":{"rendered":"
Karnataka High Court<\/div>\n
K.S. Namjundaiah vs Setti Chikka Thippanna on 27 March, 1952<\/div>\n
Equivalent citations: AIR 1952 Kant 123, AIR 1952 Mys 123<\/div>\n
Bench: Balakrishnayya<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
<\/pre>\n
ORDER<\/p>\n
 1. In C. C. No. 123 of 1943-49 on the file of the Special First Class Magistrate, Chickballapur, the respondent was convicted for an ollence under section 500, I. P. C. and sentenced to pay a fine of Rs. 200\/-. On appeal, the learned First Addl. Sessions Judge, Bangalore, acquitted the accused on the ground that no case is made out against him. The complainant has preferred this revision petition against that order.\n<\/p>\n
 2. Defamation is denned by Section 499, I. P. C. thus:\n<\/p>\n
  “Whoever by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs or by visible representations, makes or publishes any imputation concerning any person intending to harm, or knowing or having reason to believe that such imputation will harm, the reputation of such person, is said, except in the cases hereinafter excepted, to defame that person.”\n<\/p>\n
      3.  It   is  not  disputed  that  the   expression “black-marketeer” which is per se defamatory I within the meaning of the aforesaid section was used  by  the  accused  in  relation  to  the  complainant in a public gathering which was presided over by a Government officer and in which besides the parties to this proceeding a large number of respectable persons of the locality were present.\n<\/p>\n
 4. The main ground upon which the accused has been acquitted by the learned Sessions Judge is that there is no satisfactory evidence regarding the exact words of imputation. In para 4 of his judgment, he states thus:\n<\/p>\n
  “Even regarding the exact words which were alleged to have been uttered by the appellant, there is no satisfactory evidence. Each witness has given his own version about the words that were uttered by the appellant. The learned Magistrate has discussed this aspect of the case and has admitted that the evidence of the prosecution witnesses varied regarding the exact words used, but he was of the opinion that the one important factor common in the version of all the witnesses was that the appellant stated that Nanjun-diah was dealing in black-market. In a case of defamation like the present one, it is absolutely necessary that the exact words uttered by the accused should be alleged and should be proved to have been uttered by him by consistent evidence and any discrepancy therein cannot go to the advantage of the respondent, but such a benefit should always be extended to the appellant. Therefore, from the consideration of the entire evidence, I am of the opinion that the respondent has not proved his case against the appellant conclusively and that the learned Magistrate was wrong in coming to the conclusion that the appellant was liable for an offence under Section 500, I. P. C. and convicting him.”\n<\/p>\n
 It is rather difficult to understand what the learned Judge means when he says that “exact words” of imputation have not been reproduced consistently by all the witnesses. If it is meant that the witnesses should remember and reproduce the identical or tbe very same words in the order they were uttered and that even if there is some variation in the words used or trifling inconsistency in the words of different witnesses, such evidence should be discarded, it would be laying down rather a too broad or a too dangerous proposition.\n<\/p>\n
 In our  opinion,  it is  sufficient  for  the purposes of the section, if witnesses are agreed in a  substantial measure on the words of imputation uttered as it is hardly possible or necessary to reproduce every word or expression used. In   ‘BHOLA   NATH   v.   EMPEROR’,   AIR   1929 All 1 at p. 9 King J. remarked thus:\n<\/p>\n
  “It is unnecessary to  prove the  exact words used by the accused for the purpose of supporting a conviction for oral defamation.   It is sufficient to prove the purport or substance of  the  defamatory  imputations.    No  honest witness    would    profess    to    remember    the exact words used by a person who has been speaking for even 15 minutes.    At the most he  may   remember  some  striking  phrase  or expression.    But a witness’s failure to recall the exact words used, or the exact context in  which  they  were   spoken,  is   immaterial, provided that he can give a sufficiently clear account  of  the   purport   of   the   defamatory remarks.”\n<\/p>\n
 Applying this test, it is clear that the appellate Judge has not correctly interpreted the provision of law, and the order of acquittal cannot be supported.\n<\/p>\n
 5. Again, it is sought to be argued in this Court  that   even   if   accused  had   uttered   the words referring to the complainant as “black-marketeer” it was so done in a spirit of good faith actuated by a sense of social and moral duty and that no actual harm has been caused to the reputation of the person against whom the imputation is made.    Ratanlal in his Law of Crimes has stated at page 1235 that in the words of the authors of the Code,
\n  “the essence of the offence of defamation consists in its tendency to cause that description of pain which is felt by a person who knows himself to be the object of the unfavourable sentiments of his fellow creatures, and those inconveniences to which a person who is the object   of   such   unfavourable   sentiments   is exposed.”\n<\/p>\n
 It thus appears to be not necessary that actual harm should be caused, but it is sufficient, if it is proved that harm to the reputation of the person to whom the imputation is directed was intended. As observed by Doraswami Iyer C. J. in ’35 Mys CCE 397′,
\n  “it is sufficient, if the person who made  the imputation   did   so   with   the   intention   of causing harm,   or knowing or   having reason to believe,  that  such imputation  will harm the reputation  of the other.”\n<\/p>\n
 The    learned    counsel    for    the    respondent brought to the notice of the Court the recent decision of the Supreme Court in 'LOGENDRA-NATH JHA v. POLAI LAL BISWAS', 1951 SCJ 503, wherein it has been observed: \n  \"Though    Sub-section     (1)     of    section    439, Criminal    Procedure    Code,    authorises    the High Court to exercise, in its discretion, any of the powers conferred on a Court of appeal by    section    423,    Sub-section    (4)    specially excludes  the power to  'convert a  finding of the  acquittal  into  one  of  conviction'.    This does   not    mean    that   in    dealing   with    a revision petition by a private party against an order of acquittal the High Court could in the absence of any error on a point of law re-appraise   the   evidence   and   reverse   the findings of facts on which the acquittal was based,   provided   only   it   stopped   short   of finding  the  accused  guilty  and  passing sentence on him.    By merely characterising the judgment of the trial Court as 'perverse' and 'lacking    in    perspective'    the    High    Court cannot reverse pure findings of fact based on the trial Court's appreciation of the evidence in the case.\" \n \n\n<\/pre>\n
 It is apparent from the above decision that where there is an error on a point of law, the revisional jurisdiction of the High Court under Section 439, Cr. P. C. is not excluded to prevent substantial injustice. A doubt has further been raised whether the High Court could interfere and reverse the order of acquittal passed by a Sessions Judge in appeal.\n<\/p>\n
 6. It is undoubted that under Section 439, Cr.P.C. the High Court can exercise in revi-sion all the powers vested in a Court of Appeal under Section 423, Cr.P.C. subject only to a limitation of not converting a finding of acquittal into one of conviction. The High Court in revision is thus not precluded from interfering with an appellate judgment of acquittal or from reversing such order, and directing retrial in cases where it is found that there has been a failure of justice. The latter view finds support in a decision of a Full Bench of five Judges ‘Queen Empress v. Balvvant’, 3 All. 134 wherein it is laid down that “in reference to orders of acquittal passed by a Court of bession in appeal, the High Court may under Section 439, (Cr.P.C.) reverse such order and direct a retrial of the appeal.” A similar view has been taken in other cases: vide ‘Rameshwar v. Govind Prasad’, AIR 1925 All. 473; and ‘Satish Chandra v. Chinta Haran’, AIR 1938 Cal. 613.\n<\/p>\n
 7. In the result, the order of acquittal in appeal of the learned Additional Sessions Judge is set aside. The ends of justice will be served by remanding the appeal for retrial, in this instance by the Principal District and Sessions Judge, Bangalore, for disposal according to law.\n<\/p>\n
 8. Revision allowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Karnataka High Court K.S. Namjundaiah vs Setti Chikka Thippanna on 27 March, 1952 Equivalent citations: AIR 1952 Kant 123, AIR 1952 Mys 123 Bench: Balakrishnayya ORDER 1. In C. C. No. 123 of 1943-49 on the file of the Special First Class Magistrate, Chickballapur, the respondent was convicted for an ollence under section 500, I. […]<\/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-33315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-karnataka-high-court"],"yoast_head":"\nK.S. 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