130 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
The Court of Nizamut Adawlut not precluded from passing sentence of death in certain cases
V. It is further deemed necessary to declare, that nothing contained in this Regulation shall be construed to preclude the Court of Nizamut Adawlut from passing sentence of death on persons convicted of using violence or compulsion, or of having assisted in burning or burying alive a Hindoo widow, while labouring under state of intoxication, or stupefaction, or other cause impeding the exercise of her free will, when, from the aggravated nature of the offence proved against the prisoner die court may see circumstances to render him or her a proper object of mercy.
The third piece of Social Legislation is the Caste Disabilities Removal Act XXI of 1850. It enacts as follows :—
THE CASTE DISABILITIES REMOVAL ACT (XXI OF 1850)
An act for extending the principle of section 9, Regulation VII,
1832, of the Bengal Code throughout the Territories subject to the Government of the East India Company.
Preamble
WHEREAS, it is enacted by section 9, Regulation VII,
1832, of the Bengal Code that “whenever in any civil suit the parties to such suit may be of different persuations, when one party shall be of the Hindu and the other of the Muhammadan persuation, or where one or more of the parties to the suit shall not be either of the Muhammadan or Hindu persuations, the laws of those religions shall not be permitted to operate to deprive such party or parties of any property to which, but for the operation of such laws, they would have been entitled, and whereas it will be beneficial to extend the principle of that enactment throughout the territories subject to the Government of the East India Company it is enacted as follows :—
Law or Usage which inflicts forfeiture of, or affects, rights of change of religion or loss of caste to cease to be enforced
- So much of any law or usage now in force within the territories subject to the Government of the East India Company as inflicts on any