SUPREME COURT AND MAGISTRACY.
COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the Number of Offences, Apprehensions, Convictions, and Acquittals for the last Four Years.
1922 1923 1924 1925 No. of persons apprehended by the Police or summoned before the Police Magistrates, 21,557 27,123 35,484 32,358 The number of summary convictions :— 1. For Offences against the person 244 264 411 330 2. Gambling 1,175 1,754 1,958 1,921 3. For Offences against the property other than predial larceny 1,415 1,368 2,013 1,500 4. For other Offences 9,293 11,818 18,728 17,847 5. For Opium Offences 2,397 3,218 6,457 5,895 The No. of persons acquitted in the Inferior Courts 2,094 3,262 5,326 4,339H 3