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Ayling, J.—The Sub-Divisional Magistrate remarks that accused was ""not a pariah, but a govandla ryot owning some lands to whom
imprisonment in stocks is a great disgrace;"" and on this account has reduced the sentence. He does not appear, however, to have considered
whether in view of these circumstances accused was liable to the punishment of confinement in the stocks. If on this ground the sentence of
confinement in the stocks was illegal, accused cannot be convicted of an offence u/s 224, Indian Penal Code, in escaping from it.
The order of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate is set aside: and he is directed to restore the appeal to file and dispose of it according to law in the
light of the above remarks and of the decision in Queen v. Nabi Saheb 6 M.K 247 : 1 Weir 927.