Clarke, Richard [Editor]: The regulations of the government of Fort William in Bengal in force at the end of 1853 - to which are added, the acts of the government of India in force in that presidency: with lists of titles and an index (1): Regulations from 1793 to 1805 (London, 1854)

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REGULATION LIII.

[A.D. 1803.

tion of a robbery or
intent to rob.

Provision for cases
of repetition, and other
heinous cases within
this clause.

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amitigationofpunish-
clauses of this section
in any cases of exte-
nuation, or when the
example may appear
sufficient for the ends
of justice without ex-
tending the full pun-
ishment to the whole
of the prisoners con-
victed.

subjected to other personal injury, torture, or cruelty, not occasioning
homicide, or by whom a dwelling-house or houses may have been set on
fire, or any other criminal and aggravating act committed, in the prosecu-
tion of a robbery or intent to rob, as well as persons-convicted of having
been actively concerned in any of the acts aforesaid, done in prosecution
of a robbery or intent to rob, or of having been present, aiding and
abetting, when any such acts were committed, or, though not present, of
having procured and caused, by hire, counsel, or command, the perpetra-
tion of any such acts in pursuance of a preconcerted plan to commit the
same or to commit robbery, shall be adjudged to suiter imprisonment and
transportation for life. Moreover, any leaders of gangs, or other heinous
offenders, convicted of a repetition of the crime described in this clause,
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7^2//A. Provided, with respect to all the crimes and degrees of punish-
ment specified in the several clauses of this section, if from any extenu-
ating circumstances which may appear on the trial before the Uo2Z7'/6 77/
(727-0222/ or Court of Nizamut Adawlut, the stated punishment shall, in any
particular instance, appear too severe, or if on consideration of the number
of prisoners convicted of the same crime, and of any discriminative cir-
cumstances with respect to one or more of them, the example shall appear
suthcient for the ends of justice, without extending the full degree of the

Rescinded by
Sec. ii. Reg.
VIII.1808.

See Sec. ix.
Reg. VIII.
1808.
Superseded
by Sec. i. Act
XXIV. 1843.

See Sec. ii.
Act XXIV.
1843.