1945 (7) TMI 13

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....ous imprisonment on a charge of harbouring one Prithvi Ahir, who is said to have been concerned in a serious dacoity committed in July 1942, with the intention of screening him from legal punishment. From the judgments of the Courts below, it appears that the Sub-Inspector in charge of Nawanagar police-station, having received confidential information that Prithvi Ahir was concealing himself in vi....

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....rned Sessions Judge in dealing with this matter observes: This man Prithvi, it appears, belongs to Shahpur jurisdiction, but it can hardly be supposed from the place and circumstances in which he was arrested that the accused were unaware of his identity or antecedents. The evidence is that both the appellants were found sleeping along with Prithvi and Joga Kandu in the same marai. It is inconc....

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....icial investigation. There is really no clear evidence to show that the petitioners knew that Prithvi was a proclaimed absconder. But even if they did, it does not follow that they knew that he had in fact committed an offence of dacoity. The point which arises in this case arose in another case in this Court, which related to the conviction of one Jang Bahadur; and Meredith J. dealt with it in th....