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Documents citing Kuar Jaswant Singh And Ors. vs Emperor on 16 November, 1923

State vs . Tejveer Singh And Others Etc. on 18 September, 2013

35. The last defence taken by Ld. defence counsel is that the act imputed upon the accused persons does not amounts to causing obstructions in the discharge of official duties. Ld. defence counsel has relied upon the judgment titled as Jaswant Singh Vs. King Emperor AIR 1925 Lahore 139, Baldeo Singh Vs. King Emperor AIR 1926 Allahabad 566. I have gone through both the aforesaid judgments. The Hon'ble Courts in both these cases had come to the conclusion that the acts imputed upon the accused persons in those cases did not amount to obstruction of the discharge of the lawful duties on the particular facts of those cases.
Delhi District Court Cites 13 - Cited by 0 - Full Document

State And Anr. vs Seth Chhadami Lal And Ors. on 8 May, 1957

7. There is no doubt that only the prosecution evidence, but no evidence on behalf of of the accused, was taken in this case before the framing of the charge. According to the learned counsel for the accused the Magistrate was bound to ask the accused, after the prosecution evidence was over, if they had any evidence to produce in their behalf. And in support of this submission he cited a single Judge decision of this Court reported as Jaswant Singh v. Emperor, AIR 1924 All 317 (A).
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Satya Ranjan Bakshi vs Emperor on 11 February, 1929

but each case must be dealt with on its own facts. The present case is one in which the primary intention of the accused to creat ill-feeling and enmity is beyond the range of reasonable dispute. For this purpose the means employed were the dissemination of accusations so wild and horrible that their effect would obviously reach far beyond the limited range afforded by the number of persons who could read a newspaper printed in English. No one can suppose that the strongest denunciation of Europeans would if couched in general language have the same effect in the bazaars as a definite story of brutality told with reference to particular European officials. Nor can the accused be supposed to have been ignorant that when the story which they were publishing gained currency in the bazars, it would be far more likely that the object of resentment and ill-feeling would be Europeans as a class than that it would be directed against the railway administration. That it would not stop with the individuals directly libelled is clear enough. In the letter complained of the writer does all that a foolish and vulgar person can to give to his untruths the appearance of a story of outrage and to set them forth in a provocative manner with excited and exciting comment. Much pains are taken to appeal to sentiments characteristically national. It seems to me in the circumstances that the individual Europeans who are the primary victims of the criminal purpose of the accused are used in the same manner as a certain Mr. E.D. Spencer was used in the ease of Jaswant Rai v. Emperor [1907] 10 P.R. 1907 Cr. As was observed in that case:
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