1 PENAL ACTION OF
2 THE DEPARTMENT.
3 Punishments awarded by
4 Criminal Courts,
5 ADMINISTRATION
6 DURING THE YEAR.
7 Criminal offences com-
8 mitted by Establish-
9 ament,
10 Caevalties in the Force.
11 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTITERN INDIA.
12 The heading of the table shows the reasons forrelease. A
13 large number of persons arrested on the Indus Preventive Line
14 were released for being in possession of less than one seer of
15 Kohat salt.
16 71. Appendix V shows particulars of punishments inflicted
17 by Criminal Courts in cases prosecuted to conviction, and the
18 table below gives the same information in an abstract form for
19 the past two years :—
20 Number
21 imprisoned inf Average Namber Average
22 Year. default of | period ofim-| who paid {| amvunt cf
23 payment of | piisonment. fines. fines,
24 fine,
25 No. m. d. No. Rs.
26 896-97 a one ess 323 1 ids 171 7:30
27 897-98. : 290 1 8 204 8°63
28 During the past year, punishments were slighly more leni-
29 ent than during 1896-97, but they were sufficiently deterrent.
30 72. The following statement gives particulars in regard to
31 members of the Departmental Establishment who were punished
32 for criminal offences during the year under review :—
33 Using
34 eos House
35 wats Theft of | criminal House. :
36 Division. salt. force toa | trespass, breaking
37 woman. by night.
38 Panjab Mines Division eee tee oe oes 1 1
39 Sambhar ... 200 one oes 1 vee oe eae
40 Pachbadra ae oo tes ses 1 ae tee
41 i a |
42 Total aus 1 1 1
43 All of the persons punished were peons. Inthe case at the
44 Sambhar Lake. a peon was found to have removed two and a half
45 seers of salt from a heap which he was appointed to guard, and he
46 was sentenced to three months’ rigorous imprisonment. In the
47 Pachbadra Division, a peon attempted criminal violence with a
48 female labourer and was punished with six months’ rigorous
49 imprisenment. The two men who committed crime in the
50 Panjab Mines Division were punished, wich 20 stripes in the
51 instance of house trespass, and with imprisonment for one year
52 and ten months in the case of house-breakine.
53 73. The casualties among the establishment of ‘the D. part-
54 ment will be found in the table below :—
55 & |2a & 234
56 E 2G E 13 Ba
57 ° 2 a ane ww Ze
58 os) a et 3s
59 es{eztl @ | 3] « oa Zo
60 ae [Poss 3 a he 58 * 39°90
61 aev|(auy > a Xa om + tes
62 Sa liane 8 5 S e md 5 : jza3
63 ee(geol 2 i m1] 2¢) &@ jes] £2) F IES
64 ‘Ea B<s| @ 2 Fa 6 ae > foe i]
65 <= Ip 2 | 5 ae Ja re eB
66 Strength of estab. Aly ee
67 Died ase ij. 8 32 2 | ? 45 | 204
68 Dismissed Wa Hl ae . i ‘ 91 : 22 | 100
69 Deserted ase . 8 . # | U36
70 Failed to rejoin ‘ “ 61 10s 1 | 2:76
71 from leave,
72 Resigned ie . Ry 23 c I oc | 127
73 Removed as unfit or 2 4 is 8) .. en | 2s
74 pensioned. | 2
75 Brought under re- | + oe 1 2 14} 182 Bt ose Lig | O24
76 duction.
77 ‘Total casualties... ” 1 4 4 27 | 341 Io} Bi oo 3 &7 00
78 Percentage of seul) ow | 2°33 | 404] 9:52 115-00 {20-72 | Sue | awe | ds.
79 ties.
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