PANCHANAN PAL, DR Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) In both the rules the order dated June 17, 1970, passed by Sri S.S. Ganguly, Judge, Special Court, Hooghly, framing charges against the Petitioners in Special Court Case No. 1 of 1966 has been challenged. In Revision case No. 616 of 1970 one Dr. Panchanan Pal and his son Ranjit (Kumar Pal are the Petitioners. In Criminal Revision No. 838 of 1970 Dr. Uma Charan Kumar and one Bholanath Mukherjee are the Petitioners.

(2.) The background of the case out of which these two cases have arisen may, in short, be stated like this:

(3.) The prosecution case is that Hrishikesh Ghosh was an asthmatic patient and that he was aged about 62 when the policy No. 9062763 for the sum of Rs. 8,000 was proposed to be made; moreover, he was a man practically of no substance; there was a conspiracy between the Petitioners of both the revision cases as well as with one Joydeb Pal, another son of Dr. Panchanan Pal, for cheating the Life Insurance Corporation of India for the sum of Rs. 8,000; in furtherance of that conspiracy, Hrishikesh Ghosh, the insured, was taken to the house of Dr. Panchanan Pal on the plea of his treatment; he caused the said policy to be assigned to the name of his two sons. The prosecution case, further, is that Hrishikesh Ghosh died on October 18, 1959, the conspirators thereafter wanted to get the money covered by the said policy; the conspiracy of all those Petitioners and joydeb Pal was detected and information, was lodged with the Police.