
1. The appellant was convicted on the 28th May, 1919, by a Court of Commissioners sitting at Lahore under Ordinance I of 1919, and having the powers of a summary court-martial, of an offence under Section 124 A of the Indian Penal Code, i.e., of haying by written words excited or attemped to excite disaffection towards His Majesty or the Government established by law in British India, and was sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonmentafterwards reduced to three months' simple imprisonmentand to a fine of Rs. 1,000. Special leave to appeal was granted by His Majesty in Council on the 18th August, 1919.
2. The facts are shortly as follows:In March and April, 1919. there was unrest in the Punjab. Serious disturbances occurred at Delhi on the 30th March, when some persons were killed; and these disturbances were followed by disorder and violence at Amritsar and Lahore and elsewhere in the Punjab. The disturbances at Lahore occurred on the 6th, 10th, 11th and 12th April, the evidence showing that on the 11th April, Lahore city was "practically closed to the police." The appellant Boy was the editor of the " Tribune", a daily newspaper published at Lahore, and on the 6th, 8fch, 9th, 10th and 11th April, he published in that newspaper paragraphs and articles comment on the deaths at Delhi (the persons killed there being repeatedly Core, described as "martyrs") and charging the Government with grave misconduct in connection with the disturbances. It was stated in the issue of the 10th April that the "atmosphere was highly surcharged" and the "public mind in a state of unusual excitement."
. A major incident occurred in April 1919 when the British massacred Indians at Jalianwala Baag. The Tribune published a news report, Prayer at the Jama Masjid, on 6 April 1919. Kali Nath Roy was brought before the Martial Tribunal under Lieutenant Colonel Irvine and was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for two years and a fine of Rs 1,000.
Samarendra Nath Roy's parents were Suniti Bala and Kali Nath Roy who was the editor of The Tribune, a nationalist daily newspaper published in Lahore. Samarendra Nath was the oldest of his parents two children. A major incident occurred in April 1919 when the British massacred Indians at Jalianwala Baag. The Tribune published a news report, Prayer at the Jama Masjid, on 6 April 1919. Kali Nath Roy was brought before the Martial Tribunal under Lieutenant Colonel Irvine and was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for two years and a fine of Rs 1,000.
He was released after eight months for the attempts made by Rabindranath Tagore and others.
Sunitibala and Kalinath had 3 children.. the middle child Tarulata dies an early death after her early marriage.. I am Kalinath's great grand-daughter
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ReplyDeleteI would like to inform that the correct names of books written by Mr. Kali Charan Ghosh are Famines in Bengal and The Roll of Honour. They are need to be corrected.
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