NEW DELHI: The Federal Court heard arguments in the station master bribery case, in which T.G. Huntley, Station Master of Jamalpore, is charged with having accepted Rs. 20 for supplying two wagons to Moharram Ali for the transport of livestock to Bally.

Huntley was sentenced to 18 months’ rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 500 by a special tribunal under an ordinance promulgated last year to deal summarily with bribery.

Mr. H.G. Walford, appearing for the appellant, argued that Sections 270 and 271 of the Government of India Act provided protection to public servants and that without the Governor-General’s sanction prosecution could not be launched against his client.

He contended that as Mr Huntley was a lieutenant in the Army, only the military authorities had the right to remove him from his office as Station Master... — Dawn Delhi

Published in Dawn, April 19th, 2019