TWENTY-FIFTH DAY’S PROCEEDINGS   Mr. Norton continuing his address on behalf of the Crown said that when the court rose on Saturday he had brought their Lordship to the 15th March, 1906, as being the date on which the first issue of the "Yugantar" appeared. In connection with that the registration of the "Yugantar " under the Press Act was on the 12th March. It was stated to have been printed at the Kamala Press at 36, Bonomali Sircar’s Street. So regarding the details of the "Yugantar" he did not propose to trouble their Lordships at resent, but he would have to deal with the object and motives of the "Yugantar" at greater length when he woul

THE APPEALS Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins, Chief Justice THE APPEALS BEFORE The High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal. Heard by a. Special Bench composed of Sir LAWRENCE HUGH JENKINS, K T ., CHIEF JUSTICE, and MR. JUSTICE CARNDUFF, I C. S For the Crown— Mr. Eardley Norton Mr. Harry Stokes Counsel. Mr. Withal of Messrs Orr, Dignam & Co., Solicitors For the Accused— Mr. C. R. Das, Counsel. Mr.

THIRTEENTH DAY'S PROCEEDINGS   Mr. Das continuing his address said that when the Court rose on Saturday he was dealing with the documents relating to Ullaskar Dutt. He submitted if their Lordships rejected the confession, there was nothing in the documents which fixed the guilt on Ullaskar. The question then rose as to how far the shadowing witnesses fixed guilt on Ullaskar. As regards the shadowing witnesses what they found was that the evidence with reference to 15 Gopi Mohan Dutt’s Lane was the evidence of Bolai Ganguli, Satish Banerjea and Suresh Ghose and the incidents of which that evidence was made up were the incidents o

EIGHTEENTH DAY’S PROCEEDINGS   Mr. Das continuing his address on behalf of Sudhir Kumar Sirkar said, there were three or four Sudhirs and there was nothing in the documents found to show which Sudhir was meant. Then again there were several Sudhirs who stayed at the garden. If there Lordships were satisfied that exhibit 774 was written by Sudhir, then his case stood on a different footing. Exhibit 774 was a post-card addressed to Upendra Nath Banerjee, Sil's Lodge, Deoghar, and was signed by Sudhir. There was nothing in that post-card about the garden except the postscript which ran as follows "The condition of the garden is bad ; monke

Eleventh Day's Proceedings ELEVENTH DAY’S PROCEEDINGS        His Lordship resumed the further hearing of the reference in the Alipore Bomb case. The Advocate General continuing his argument in the case against Birendra Chunder Sen, one of the Sen brothers of Sylhet, referred to the various exhibits against this accused. The book of explosive compound and the powder found at Sylhet incriminated this accused. Besides those there was the statement which Biren made before Mr. Kemp, District Superintendent of Police, to the effect that he had borrowed Rs. 8 from Barindra Kumar Ghose. This could not be concocted by the police for it was amply corroborated by the posta

Twenty - Second Day's Proceedings FORTY-SECOND DAY’S PROCEEDINGS        Mr. Das continuing his reply to the arguments of the Crown in the case against Abinash, submitted that the letters relied upon by the Crown to prove the connection of Abinash with the conspiracy showed an absence of connection of any kind. There was not a tittle of evidence on the record from which the inference could be drawn that Abinash was in the editorial chair of the "Yugantar ” after September, 1907. The next document relied upon by the Crown was the rent receipt in respect of the Muraripukur garden, dated the 24th June, 1907. When he (Mr. Das) was dealing with this case, Mr. Norton s

-79_Reference-Tenth Day^s Proceedings.htm TENTH DAY’S PROCEEDINGS His Lordship resumed the further hearing of the reference in the Alipore Bomb Case. The Advocate-General, continuing his argument in the case against the Sen Brothers, referred to a letter written by Hem Chandra Sen, the elder brother, to Susil and Biren, the appellants. This letter was found in the possession of Susil at Sylhet. On the envelop was the address, 128-1, Keranibagan Road and dated April 1908. This letter gave colour to the fact that Biren was Page 409 going to Japan. The letter showed that Susil, a boy of 16 years of age, had left school and had no occupation. Still he was in Calcutta and took

-51_Thirty Second Day^s Proceedings.htm THIRTY-SECOND DAY’S PROCEEDINGS Mr. Norton continuing his address took up the case of Hrishi Kesh. On the 11th May Rishikesh made a confessional statement and was also implicated by the confessional statements of Barindra Kumar Ghosh and Ulhskar Dutt. Mr. Norton then referred to the various documents, which, the prosecution alleged, showed Rishikesh connection with the conspiracy. Judging from his confession Rishikesh’s vindictiveness against British Rule would probably tempt him to in as man men as he could. The phrase "preaching the new cult" which occurred in one of the documents, said Counsel, could not mean anything but assassination.

-66_Forty Seventh Day^s Proceedings.htm FORTY-SEVENTH DAY’S PROCEEDINGS Mr. Chuckerverti continuing his argument on behalf of Indra Nath Nandi submitted that Indra Nath’s connection with the Page 350 conspiracy was due mainly to his connection with Tara Nath Rai Chowdury who was described by the Crown as an absconder and proclaimed offender. It was clear from the evidence that Tara Nath became the Manager of the Yugantar in November 1907. He was never the Editor, Printer and Publisher of that paper. He simply collected money on behalf of the paper and made payments. It had been suggested by the Crown that there were grounds for reasonable suspicion against him that he was a cons

-62_Forty Third Day^s Proceedings.htm FORTY-THIRD DAY’S PROCEEDINGS Mr. Das continuing his argument referred to the "Mukti Kon Pathe" and said that on the 1st July the proof sheets of this book were found and seized by the police in the "Yugantar" office. No action was taken by the police for several months and thinking that there was nothing wrong Abinash published the book. Counsel was proceeding on the assumption that Abinash did publish this book. If his story was true, as he said, it was no evidence of conspiracy. Carnduf J : Which story ? Mr. Das : What I am stating now. Carnduff, J : Assuming he did publish it. Mr. Das : Yes. He is responsible for the public