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1. The Sub-Divisional Magistrate remarks that accused was "not a pariah, but a govandla ryot owning some lands to whom imprisonment in stocks is a great disgrace;" and on this account has reduced the sentence. He does not appear, however, to have considered whether in view of these circumstances accused was liable to the punishment of confinement in the stocks. If on this ground the sentence of confinement in the stocks was illegal, accused cannot be convicted of an offence under Section 224, Indian Penal Code, in escaping from it.