{"id":47433,"date":"1887-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1887-01-11T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/queen-empress-vs-shere-singh-on-12-january-1887"},"modified":"2016-07-02T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T11:24:55","slug":"queen-empress-vs-shere-singh-on-12-january-1887","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/queen-empress-vs-shere-singh-on-12-january-1887","title":{"rendered":"Queen-Empress vs Shere Singh on 12 January, 1887"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Allahabad High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Queen-Empress vs Shere Singh on 12 January, 1887<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1887) ILR 9 All 362<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Straight<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Straight<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Straight, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. Without in the least degree expressing any opinion upon the views enunciated by the District Magistrate in his referring letter with regard to the case of Shere Singh, I have, after consulting the learned Chief Justice on the matter, come to the conclusion that the Registrar should return the reference to the Magistrate, with an intimation that this Court is of opinion that the method he has adopted of calling the attention of the Court to the case is an inconvenient one, which, if it received sanction, might lead to difficulties and complications, and possible friction between District Magistrates and Judges. I think the practice to be followed in these matters should be for the Magistrate, if he considers there has been a miscarriage of justice, to communicate with the Public Prosecutor as to the case in which he thinks it has occurred, and to invite his assistance to move the Court with regard to it. This course will secure the twofold advantage  (i) of enabling the Magistrate to be well advised as to the propriety of a motion being made, and (ii) of ensuring that it will be laid before the Court in its strongest aspects. Moreover, the Public Prosecutor will be able to communicate with the Judge whose decision is impeached, and thus at first-hand be in a position to lay before us all the materials which are ordinarily required by us before dealing with revision cases of this character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court Queen-Empress vs Shere Singh on 12 January, 1887 Equivalent citations: (1887) ILR 9 All 362 Author: Straight Bench: Straight JUDGMENT Straight, J. 1. Without in the least degree expressing any opinion upon the views enunciated by the District Magistrate in his referring letter with regard to the case of Shere Singh, I [&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-47433","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 v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Queen-Empress vs Shere Singh on 12 January, 1887 - 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\/queen-empress-vs-shere-singh-on-12-january-1887\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Queen-Empress vs Shere Singh on 12 January, 1887 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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