The Bengal Arms Act Manual 1920

SALE OF ARMS BY NAZIR.—The sale of arms by the Nazir of the Court in execution of a decree is a sale by a public servant in dicharge of his duty and is therefore excluded by section 1 clause (b) from the operation of the Indian Arms Act XI of 1878. [...] Ms expedient for the Court ordering such sale to give notice of the sale and of the purchaser's name and address as contemplated by section 5 of that Act to the Magistrate of the district or to the police officer in charge of the nearest police-station." Wala Hiraji versus Hira Patel.=-1. [...] Held that the definition of ammunition " in the Indian Arms Acl 1878 (section 4) is not exhaustive and that the question whether an article comes within the description of the Act is °Le of fact to be determined according to circumstances and that lead moulded into bullets of 20 to 24 bore is "ammunition" and is rot excluded from the definition of the word " ammunition" in the Act. [...] 2. The exemption in clause 2 of section 6 of the Irdian Arms Act 1878 covers only the export of - arms and ammunition by a privileged person for his own personal use not the export of arms and ammunition by other people for the use of a privileged person.—Foreign Department letter No. [...] Where proceedings under the Indian Arms Act 4878 in respect of the unlawful possession of arms are taken against a member of a joint Hindu family not being the head of such joint family and arms are found iu a common room of the joint family house it is incumbent upon the prosecution to give good evidence that s.uch arms are in the exclusive possession and control of the particular member of t