ZORA SINGH AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is an application under S. 561 -A of Criminal P.C.

(2.) THEIR imprisonment under Ss. 366/376, I.P.C., commenced first but their conviction on those charges was quashed by this Court when their appeal was accepted on 4 -9 -1953. They had by that time undergone rigorous imprisonment or seven months and twenty -five days.

(3.) ACQUITTAL means a deliverance and setting free of a person from suspicion or guilt of an offence. Naturally, therefore, when a man is pronounced to be not guilty the immunity from the charge and punishment must operate from the date of his conviction and not from the date of the appellate or revisional court reverses the conviction. He must be taken to have been set free from the date his conviction was recorded as if no punishment was ever imposed upon him.