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Trail of Raja Nand Kumar
Trail of Raja Nand Kumar
One of the function of the Supreme Court was to protect the native residing in
Bengal Bihar and Orissa against the oppressive act of the company servant.
but the court failed to discharge this function effectively because the
language ,Law, procedure adopted by it was foreign to the native and was also
repulsive to the their custom and tradition
The trial of Raja Nand kumar clearly indicate that the supreme court failed to
act with the prudence to impart justice to the natives.
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This event made Hasting a bitter in any of Nand kumar and he looked
for an opportunity to show him down
In order to bring for the disgrace to Raj Nand Kumar hasting manipulated another case of forgery against him at
the instance of one Mohan Prasad.
Conspiracy case Supreme Court in its decisions of July 1775 fined Fawkes but reserved its judgement against
Nand kumar on the ground of pending fraud case the charge against Nandakumar in forgery case was that he
had forged a bond in 1770
The council protested against Nandkumar charge in the Supreme Court but the Supreme Court proceed with the
case and he did finally the Nand kumar was tried by a jury of 12 English men who returned a verdict of guilty and
consequently the Supreme Court sentence him to death under the act of british Parliament which was passed in
1728( forgery act 1728)
Critics of Nand kumar
The offence of forgery for which Nandakumar‘ was alleged to have been
committed in 1770 long before the establishment of Supreme Court in
1774.
Forgery was not recognised as capital offence under the Hindu law or
mohammedan law . It was however a capital offence under the statute
of 1728 of England but this law was unknown to the natives in India.