1931 (9) TMI 12

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.... murder and knowing such charge to be false--the offence under Section 211, Indian Penal Code. 2. It would have been better if the charge had exactly specified how he instituted these proceedings. 3. Apparently he is charged on two counts. Firstly, he sent a telegram to the District Superintendent of Police, Madura, to the effect that these persons stabbed Tirumeni Servai; and secondly, that....

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....Z" his confession that he murdered Z cannot be proved. 5. No doubt the appellant admits that he sent the telegram, but the prosecution cannot rely upon his admission without other proof, and even if it could so rely, would be bound to take the admission as a whole. The appellant says that he is illiterate and ignorant of English, and what was telegraphed is not what he told the writer. 6. Th....