On January 28, 1963 at about 7.45 p.m. several dacoits had collected on P.W.D. road near Telia Talab, Monghyr police station mofassil and committed dacoity in respect of the properties of a number of passers by. Ganesh Prasad and his brother Kamaleshwar Tanti who were going together on a cycle from Mong-hyr to their village Nawagarhi, were held up by about 15 dacoits and were deprived of several valuable articles like watch, cycle, shirt, muffler and money. Those articles were forcibly snatched from them on threat of violence. They were then made to sit on one side, away from the main road. When they were sitting there, Thakur Prasad Choudhary, resident of village Garhi Rampur and Mukhia of the village Panchayat and Ram Baran Mandal also happened to come on a rickshaw from Monghyr side and while passing by the place of occurrence they too were intercepted by the dacoits and deprived of their properties. A woman named Dayabati Devi and one Prayag Narain Gupta, a homeopath doctor, who also happened to pass that way in a rickshaw were also attacked by the dacoits and forcibly deprived of their belongings. In the meantime Ram Baran Mandal and Thakur Prasad Choudhary somehow managed to escape in their rickshaw.
When
they reached Telia Talab crossing from where one road goes towards Jamalpur,
another towards Bariarpur and the third one towards. Monghyr, they saw a jeep
car standing there with three police officers in uniform, a Sub Inspector of
police Deo Dutt Prasad Varma, along with driver-constable. Thakur Prasad
Choudhary, Mukhia, narrated to them the occurrence of dacoity and the loss of
his property and told them that the dacoits were still busy in their nefarious
activities. After giving this information he accompanied those officers in the
jeep to the place of occurrence. Ram Baran went away towards his village.
Thakur Prasad Choudhary pointed out to the police officers the place of
occurrence as soon as it became visible in the light flashed by the headlights
of the jeep. The jeep stopped near the place of occurrence and it is alleged
that more than eight dacoits were found present at the spot. The Inspector
ordered the constable to get down and arrest the dacoits. That time occupants
of the jeep tried to get down one of the dacoits fired at them hitting both the
Inspector and the Sub-Inspector causing them bleeding injuries.
The Court held that charges Under Sections
395, 307 and 398, I.P.C. All of them were convicted Under Section 395, IPC and acquitted of the charge
Under Section
398, IPC. Accused, Akal Yadav, was in addition
convicted Under Section
307, IPC and was sentenced to undergo
rigorous imprisonment for life under each count. The other accused persons were
sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for ten years each Under Section 395, IPC.
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