Anu Meah vs. The Tripura Administration on 18 July, 1960

    

    Safia Khatun,was living at the time with her husband and children in the house in the western Bhiti. She had two tenants Safia Khatun, wife of one Sundar Ali and her sister Rahela who was also a married woman but living away from her husband. They were living in the southern house in the eastern Bhiti. The two sisters were said to be women of loose morals and many men including Anu Meah alias pichainna, the deceased Abdul Majid, Abdul Jabbar, Han Meah and Mon Meah were said to have been visiting the said house for immoral purposes.

     On the night Safia Khatun,'s husband Sarafat Ali was in the house of his niece about 100 cubits away. Safia Khatun, was said to have seen Anu Meah alias pichainna in the earlier part of the night lying in bed with Rahela. Later at about 2 A. M., according to Safia Khatun,, while she was sleeping in her house with her children including, (her husband being away in the house of his niece about 100 cubits away) she heard a row taking place in front of the house of Rahela and her sister. She went out with a hurricane lantern (it being a dark night) and saw Anu Meah alias pichainna and Abdul Majid fighting. Rahela's sister Safia Khatun was trying to separate the two. Rahela went inside her house find brought a 'Batti Dao' and handed it over to the appellant and the Anu Meah alias pichainna gave a cut with it on the neck of the deceased who immediately fell down in a pool of blood.

     Anu Meah alias pichainna immediately ran away from the place. Rahela and her sister then shut themselves inside the house. Safia Khatun, had raised an alarm on seeing the fighting and also on seeing Abdul Majid fall down and the appellant running away. She went to the deceased and took him on her lap and tried to stop the flow of blood with two Saris of hers and gave him water to drink and sprinkled water on his head. But immediately Abdul Majid died on, her lap.

  Anu Meah alias pichainna was convicted by the Sessions Court under Section 302 I. P. C. and sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of one Abdul Majid. He has filed this appeal against the said conviction and sentence.

  The Court held that no case has been made out against the appellant (Anu Meah alias pichainna) and the learned Sessions Judge was utterly in error in convicting and sentencing him.  Anu Meah alias pichainna had to remain in jail for a period of 2 years on this trumpery charge.