1931 (12) TMI 16

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....enced to death for murdering a police officer. The accused was tried at the High Court Session by Panckridge, J. and a special jury, and was charged under Sections 117, 147 and 302, Penal Code. His Lordship while charging the jury said; You can abet a person in three ways. You can abet him by instigation. If there was evidence for your consideration that the accused positively encouraged the boy o....

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.... he can point to any duty cast upon any one to interrupt songs or to forbid their continuance, and he has not been able to say that the law casts any such duty upon a person presiding at a meeting. 2. As an illustration, let me tell you this: Supposing two police officers desire to extort a confession and one threatens the accused person and the other stands by and does nothing. The one that stan....

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....the act of permitting. Of course permission can be a positive act. If there was evidence to show that Upen Das said: " Here is a song, I want to sing. May I sing it ?" and if this accused having reason to believe that the song was of an objectionable character, allowed it and Upen sang the songs, that would be an act and specific permission. But it appears to me that simply doing nothing is not an....