History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c44.99
History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c44.99
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v2.c44.99
"377. The Chiefs are under the political control of British authority. In the management of their territories, they are practically independent under ordinary circumstances, except as regards the Administration of Criminal Justice. In that department they stand virtually towards the British Officer in the relation of Magistrates towards the Sessions Judge; and they have always administered the Criminal Laws of the British Government. It has now been recommended that the Indian Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Act should be extended to the Gurjat Tributary States, and that the Chiefs should be gazetted as Magistrates."¹