Delhi conspiracy case

The application of Charan Das, who on appeal by the Local Government against his acquittal, was convicted and sentenced to transportation for life by the Punjab Chief Court also came up before their lordships of the Privy Council on Tuesday, April 27, at the same time as the application of the four accused sentenced to death. In the latter the Lord Chancellor reiterated what he had said in a previous case, namely, that their lordships must not be regarded as a Court of Criminal Appeal and ultimately announced that as regards the four petitioners sentenced to death they were unable to advise His Majesty to grant special leave to appeal. The petition of Charan Das was argued the next when Sir Robert Finlay argued that his case stood on an entirely different footing from the others in as much as he was acquitted by the original Court.