BHAGWAN RAM TAMTA Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BHAGWAN Ram Tamta has been convicted under Sec ­tions 342 and 218, I.P.C. Lila Singh has been convicted under Section 342, I.P.C.

(2.) ON August 5, 1973 Bhagwan Ram Tamta, appellant was attached to police station Kashipur as Sub -Inspector. Lila Singh was attached as constable. In connection with the investigation of an offence under Section 436, I. P. C, the ap ­pellants left the police station in a police jeep. When they returned to the police station, they got an entry made in the general diary in which it was in ­dicated in what manner the investiga ­tion for the offence under Section 436, I.P.C, was conducted.

(3.) THE case of the prosecution is that Bhagwan Ram Tamta and Lila Singh had illegally arrested Roshan and that they did not mention this fact in the general diary.