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REPORT OF THE INDIAN HEMP DRUGS COMMISSION, 1893-94.
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ANALYSIS MADE BY THE COMMISSION OF CASES REFERRED TO BY WITNESSES IN ANSWERING QUESTION NO 53.
I.—Cases the records of which have not been called for.
Serial
No.
Province.
Name of witness.
Number
of
witness.
Name of criminal.
Nature of the crime.
Reason for attributing the crime to
hemp drugs.
1
Bengal
Mr. Williams
13 Not given
A Darbhanga sowar seems to
have run amok in Calcutta.
Witness was told he did not
take liquor.
"My
knowledge of the case
was entirely hearsay."
2
Do.
Mr. Taylor
36
Do.
When witness
was passing
through a Sonthal village in
1856 with some friends, a
man attacked them with a
sword
It was during the
Sonthal rebellion.
The villagers and the man
himself said he was intoxi-
cated with bhang.
3
Do.
Abhilas
Chandra
Mukerjee.
63
Do.
A lad in an altercation with
his uncle killed him with a
sword. This case was report-
ed to witness by the District
Superintendent, Police.
The lad was a ganja-smoker
and the uncle used to re-
monstrate with him.
4
Do.
Nobin Chander Sen
39
Do.
A fakir committed murder.
No special reason given.
5
Do.
Govind Chandra Das
64
Radhai Haldar
A man killed his mother be-
cause she would not bring
his son who had been cre-
mated, but whom he believed
to have been raised from the
dead by frinath.
The
man
is said to have
smoked ganja at a "Trinath
fair."
But
the case is very
doubtful.
6
Do.
Nobo Gopal Bose
218
Not given
A
Brahmachari sacrificed a
human being.
The accused told his pleader
he
was
intoxicated
from
ganja.
7
Do.
Nimai Charan Das
142
Do.
A Muhammadan fakir killed a
disciple with his dhow
for
being late in bringing
his
smoke.
No reason given.
The man
had not had his ganja and
was angry.
8
Assam
K. C. Sanyal
31
Not given
A man addicted to ganja was
sitting talking with a friend
and suddenly killed him.
He was addicted to ganja.
9
North-Western
Provinces.
Mr. Robarts
32
Not given
A constable threw small stones
at his comrades and threaten-
ed to shoot, but gave up his
rifle quietly.
He was addicted to ganja.
10
Do.
Mr. Partridge
20
Do.
A fakir in Srinagar chopped
off a boy's head.
He was a consumer in con-
siderable
quantities
and
"fairly rational" when not
under the influence of charas.
11
Do.
Munna Lal
123
Do.
A fakir threatened people on
the street over 20 years ago.
The witness remembers it was
charas.
12
Do.
Do.
123
Do.
2. A man was making a dis-
turbance as witness passed
by.
The people in the street said
he was mad with ganja or
charas.
13
Do.
Pandit Debi Parshad
204
Do.
A fakir threw idols into a well
and also pushed in a man
who remonstrated with him,
fourteen years ago.
"He was an excessive con-
sumer."
He was sent to the
asylum and remained there
twelve years.
14
Do.
Mohant
Keshoram
Rai.
242
Do.
Two men quarrelled four or
five years ago.
No reason given in any of the
three cases.
15
Do.
Do.
242
Lahri Baba
2. Killed a child for his orna-
ments 25 years ago when
under
the
influence
"of
bhang
with dhatura
and
arsenic in it."
No reason given in any of the
three cases.
16
Do.
Do.
242
Not given
3. A
teacher 40 years ago
killed a student.
No reason given in any of the
three cases.
17
Do.
Mr. R. Wall
233
Not given
A Gurkha soldier ran amok
about 1879 at Naini Tal.
"It was ascribed by rumour
to ganja-smoking."