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\par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid2642717 {\b\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7829784 KANTA WATI alias SAVITA DEVI
\par }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2642717\charrsid13898733 d/o Krishna
\par }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2642717\charrsid2642717 (Appellant)}{\b\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2642717\charrsid2642717 
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\par Mr. S. Verma for Mr. R. Shankar, Counsel for the appellant
\par Mr. D. Williams, Counsel for the Respondent
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The appellant was charged with the offence of fraudulent conversion on which charge she was convicted and fined. In giving evidence in that case she swore that she had not been in New Zealand between J
une and December 1977. It is not of course unusual for persons charged with criminal Offences to lie on oath during their trial, but it is usually difficult to produce direct evidence proving the untruths.}{
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\par }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid3158902 In this case the Crown was able to produce evidence of people w}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16063475 ho had seen the appellant in N}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid3158902 ew Zealand and also to prove that the appellant had in fact been declared a prohibited immig}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16063475 rant by the New Zealand immigra
}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid3158902 tion authorities, having been arrested and convicted of overstaying in the country under 
a false identity, and having been deported. There was therefore clear unspeechable evidence that the appellant had l}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16063475 ied under oath, and to make matter}{
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\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid3158902  others in support of her perjured evidence, and had also produced what must }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10751376 have been forged letters}{
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\par }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid3158902 As a result she was charged with the offence of}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10751376  perjury, to which she pleaded guilty. On her con}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid3158902 victio}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10751376 n she was sentenced to 9 months}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid3158902 
 imprisonment, and it is aga}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10751376 inst this sentence that she now}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid3158902  appeals. For the reco
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\par }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid3158902 Before this Court the appellant's counsel has pleaded for a more lenient sentence but }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10751376 he had not forwarded any facts }{
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the magistrate who convicted and sentenced h}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10751376 er. In fact the magistrate had}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid3158902 
 before him in addition the evidence of Satya Mudaliar Nathaniel a clergyman who spoke in mitigation.}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672 
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very root of justice. Corruption is one and perjury is another. Whi
le a person is entitled to defend himself as well as he is able, the whole administration of justice and the rule of law requires the truth to be told. No one can come to Court and lie with impunity. This}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10751376  m}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid3158902 ust be widely known.
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ving Mr. Shankar to represent her. He has said everything that could possibly be said on her behalf and I have given anxious consideration to everything he has said. I take into account her plea of guilty today a}{
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\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3158902 {\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid3158902 The magistrate has properly and judiciously exercised his }{
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\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13439216  }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid3158902 magistrate has erred or misdirected himself - which in this case he has not.}{
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\par }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13439216 The appe}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid3158902 llant showed a w
ilful contempt of the Court in her efforts to persuade it to accept her perjured evidence. Perhaps she was unlucky that the Crown has been able so conclusively to demonstrate her falsity, but that was a risk she must have accepted and she can hardly compl
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\par }{\b\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6577872 JUDGE}{\b\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid13439216 
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\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3158902 {\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13330672\charrsid3158902 Lautoka,
\par 23rd October, 1979.
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