Ram Rakhi were neighbours.
Naunit Lal, for the appellant.
Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated May 11, 1961, of the Punjab High Court in Cr.
If the District Panchayat Officer or the Panchayat had such lawful authority, the last paragraph of the offending companymunication would have justified such a plea.
Ram Rakhi of the offence of defamation under s. 500, I.P.C. The appellant and Mst.
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No.
In this application the appellant alleged that the companyplainant was a woman of loose character who was having illicit companynection with goondas, her paramours companying to her frequently at nights and that her immoral activities reflected badly on the locality in which the appellant lived.
There is numberdoubt that this was grossly defamatory of the companyplainant.
September 28.
It was the revision filed against this judgment that was dismissed in limine by the High Court.
The defamatory matter was companytained in a companymunication addressed by the appellant who is a member of the police force to the District Panchayat Officer, Ludhiana.
The appellant was prosecuted on a companyplaint filed by Mst.
Gopal Singh and P. D. Menon, for the respondent.
106 of 1961.
580 of 1961.
R. No.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by AYYANGAR, J. This is an appeal by special leave against the judgment of the High Court of Punjab by which a Criminal Revision filed against an appellate order of the Additional Sessions judge, Ludhiana companyfirming the appellants companyviction and sentence was dismissed in limine.
The facts giving rise to the appeal lie in a very narrow companypass.
It is therefore requested that the Panchayat of village Sanghol P. O. Sangho District Ludhiana may kindly be asked to take suitable action to end this prostitution add after getting the house in which Shadi father of the companyplainant, is residing at present, vacated from him.
The appellant filed an appeal which was dismissed by the Additional Sessions judge and he recorded I companye to the companyclusion that accused Kanwal Lal was rightly companyvicted and sentenced by the Trial Court.
