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Queen-Empress vs Imam Ali And Anr. on 20 December, 1887 cites

Queen-Empress vs Sheodin And Anr. on 25 November, 1887

It may be that on such occasions (as I am afraid is often the case) events may occur which would constitute the corpus delicti of one or other of the various offences relating to religion dealt within Chapter XV of the Indian Penal Code, and indeed it may be that those events require the application of even severer sections of that Code. There can scarcely be any doubt that the difficulties with which Courts of justice have to deal in such matters arise from the fact that Her Majesty's subjects in India having long been accustomed before the advent of the British rule to oppressive methods, cannot easily accommodate themselves to the new state of things ushered into existence by the British Government, under which religious toleration and individual liberty of the citizen is recognized to an extent which, according to some deep thinkers, was too much in advance of the stage of civilization which the country had attained. Quite recently in Crim. Rev. No. 629 of 1887, Queen-Empress v. Sheodin, ante, p. 115, I had to deal with a somewhat similar matter. There the dispute was not between Hindus and Muhammadans, but between two sections of the Hindu community, that is, between the Vaishnavas and the Saraogis in connection with a religious procession of the latter to which the former objected. Similarly quarrels arise between the two sections of the Muhammadan community-the Sunnis and the Shiahs-in connection with the uttering of certain words which are most offensive to the religious feelings of the Sunni Muhammadans, and which words might in some circumstances fall under the purview of Section 298 of the Indian Penal Code. I have no doubt that the Legislature in framing Chapter XV of the Indian Penal Code has made a great advance in the direction of the religious toleration which civilized methods of thoughts enjoin, and if difficulties arise in connection with such matters, they are due not to any defect of the law but to the inconsiderate and reckless behaviour of the various sections of a population which does not fully appreciate the blessings of religious toleration and individual liberty which the British rule by framing wise laws has accorded to the people of this country.
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