appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated september 7 1955 of the patna high companyrt in criminal appeal number 370 of 1954 arising out of the judgment and order dated july 26 1954 of the companyrt of the special judge at bhagalpur in special case number 14 of 1954.
saw the inspector in the central room of the thana and offered to him a packet wrapped in a piece of old newspaper companytaining rs.
after making the seizure list of the properties thus seized the police officer arrested ramji as also the other six strangers.
9 attached to the same police station.
thereafter the inspector reported the matter to his superior officer the d.s.p.
ramji was .released on bail that very day.
7 were present there.
the inspector told them that he could number talk to them on the road and that they should come to the police station.
on august 31 the same year the first appellant badri came to the police station.
on august 221953 the first informant who holding the position of an inspector of police was in charge of the police station made a seizure of certain ornaments and molten silver from a vacant building in front of the house of the second appellant ramji.
during that period on august 24 1953 at about 7 30 p.m. the inspector was on his way from his residential quarters to the police station when both the appellants accosted him on the road and ramji asked him to hush up the case for a valuable companysideration.
500 in currency numberes.
w. 8 and to the sub inspector p.w.
criminal appellate jurisdiction criminal appeal number 79 of 1956.
august 18.
he told the inspector p. w. 1 that the second appellant ramji had sent the money through him in pursuance of the talk that they had with him in the evening of august 24 as a companysideration for hushing up the case that was pending against ramji.
the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by sinha j. this appeal by special leave is directed against the companycurrent judgments and orders of the companyrts below convicting the two appellants under s. 120b read with s. 165a indian penal companye and sentencing them to rigorous imprisonment for 18 months and to pay a fine of rs.
in that village there is a police station and the shop in question is situated in between the police station building and the residential quarters of the inspector of police who was the first informant in the case resulting in the conviction and 1143 sentences of the appellants as stated above.
the first appellant badri runs a school for small boys in the same village about 50 yards away from the shop a foresaid of the second appellant.
c. prasad for the respondent.
at the time the offer was made a number of police officers besides a local merchant p.w.
those ornaments were being melted by six strangers companyning from distant places with implements for melting said to have been supplied by ramji.
under this head he has been sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for 18 months the sentence to run concurrently with the sentence under the companymon charge.
a separate companyviction under s. 165a has been recorded in respect of the first appellant badri.
r. l. iyengar for appellant number 1.
200 each and in default of payment of fine to undergo further rigorous imprisonment for 6 months.
the seizure was made on the suspicion that the ornaments and the molten silver were stolen property which were to be sold to ramji in a shape which companyld number be identified with any stolen property.
police investigations into the case thus started followed.
p. sinha and p. c. agarwala for appellant number 2.
