LAWS(GJH)-1961-2-6

STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. NAGESHWAR SOMESHWAR

Decided On February 24, 1961
STATE OF GUJARAT Appellant
V/S
NAGESHWAR SOMESHWAR Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a reference by the Additional District Magistrate Baroda under sec. 435 Cr. P. C. recommending that the order passed under sec. 145 Cr. P. C. by the 2nd Sub-Divisional Magistrate Baroda in Criminal Case No. 8 of 1960 holding that one Chatur Shanker was in actual possession of 0-38 Gunthas of land of Survey No. 1106/3 of Padra village and forbidding Nageshwar Someshwar from disturbing that possession until evicted by due course of law be set aside in view of the fact that in a subsequent case namely Criminal Case No. 174 of 1960 the Judicial Magistrate First Class Padra decided on 3-10-60 that Chatur Shanker had committed criminal trespass on the field bearing Survey No. 1106/3 which was is the actual possession of Bai Shantaben the wife of Nageshwar Someshwar. The learned Additional District Magistrate thinks that in view of the order passed by the Judicial Magistrate First Class Padra on 3-10-60 the order passed by the Second Sub-Divisional Magistrate Baroda under sec. 145 Cr. P. C. on 27-7-60 should be set aside by the High Court.

(2.) I do not agree with the learned Additional District Magistrate because if a proper order is passed by a Magistrate on the evidence led before him that order would not cease to be proper because some other Court has later come to a different conclusion on the evidence led before that Court. Mr. Amin who appears for Nageshwar Someshwar has stated that there is no other ground for holding that the order passed by the Second Sub Divisional Magistrate Baroda under sec. 145 Cr. P. C. is improper. I therefore reject this reference. Reference rejected.