{"id":66271,"date":"1931-07-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1931-07-23T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/lachmi-shaw-vs-emperor-on-24-july-1931"},"modified":"2019-02-03T02:43:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T21:13:36","slug":"lachmi-shaw-vs-emperor-on-24-july-1931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/lachmi-shaw-vs-emperor-on-24-july-1931","title":{"rendered":"Lachmi Shaw vs Emperor on 24 July, 1931"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Calcutta High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Lachmi Shaw vs Emperor on 24 July, 1931<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: AIR 1932 Cal 383, 137 Ind Cas 849<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1. This rule is directed against an order passed by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Serampore summoning the petitioner under Sections 211 and 182, I.P.C. What happened in the case was this. The petitioner Lachmi Shaw lodged an ejahar before the police bringing a charge of theft against one Babaji Naik. The police enquired into the matter and submitted their report. The petitioner filed before the Magistrate what is called a naraji petition, whereupon the learned Magistrate sent the matter to an Honorary Magistrate for enquiry and report; and when the Honorary Magistrate submitted his report, the learned Subdivisional Magistrate passed the order complained of.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The order complained of cannot in our opinion, be allowed to stand. The learned Magistrate, in our judgment, was wrong in law when he issued a process against the petitioner under Sections 211 and 182, I.P.C. without having dismissed the naraji petition of the petitioner which was to be treated as a complaint. This naraji petition of the petitioner still remains undisposed of and that being so, the order passed by the learned Magistrate was not justifiable in law We would, accordingly, make the rule absolute which we might mention, has not been opposed and set aside the order summoning the petitioner under Sections 182 and 211, I.P.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calcutta High Court Lachmi Shaw vs Emperor on 24 July, 1931 Equivalent citations: AIR 1932 Cal 383, 137 Ind Cas 849 JUDGMENT 1. This rule is directed against an order passed by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Serampore summoning the petitioner under Sections 211 and 182, I.P.C. What happened in the case was this. The petitioner [&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-66271","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 v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lachmi Shaw vs Emperor on 24 July, 1931 - 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\/lachmi-shaw-vs-emperor-on-24-july-1931\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lachmi Shaw vs Emperor on 24 July, 1931 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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