'Penal Liability Not Attracted If A Person Harbours Dacoits In General And Has No Knowledge Of A Particular Dacoity': Calcutta HC [Read Judgment]

On Friday, the Calcutta High Court held that penal liability would not be attracted if a person harbours dacoits in general and it must be proved that he had harboured such dacoits who intended to commit a 'particular dacoity'. The order was passed in an appeal filed by one of the convicts against the order of the Trial Court that had sentenced him to suffer rigorous imprisonment...