Madras High Court
Nallapparaju Yenkataramaraju vs Medisetti Achayya And Anr. on 28 March, 1916
Equivalent citations: 33IND. CAS.824, AIR 1917 MADRAS 158(2)
JUDGMENT Oldfield, J.
1. Following Rama Iyer v. Venkatachala Padayachi 30 M. 311 : 2 M.L.T. 84 : 17 M.L.J. 123 : 5 Cr. L.J. 288, we must treat these proceedings under Section 195 of the Code of Criminal Procedure as of a criminal, not of a civil, nature and apply to them the criminal law of procedure. The Code of Criminal Procedure does not authorise an order for payment of costs in this connection, and it is not possible to justify one with reference to any inherent power of the Court. The Lower Court's order for payment of costs is, therefore, unsustainable and is set aside.
Sadasiva Aiyar, J.
2. I agree and only wish to add that this petition itself should, in my opinion, have been filed under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and not under Section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure. I' respectfully dissent from the dictum in In re Chennanagoud 26 M. 139 : 2 Weir 197.