V. D. Elshin Again in Court Judgment was reserved on Friday afternoon by the Second B.anch
against V. D. rissian shroff, isngms igh Court inthe case who. was charged by police with doing malicious damage to the property of the local USS.R. Consulate-General and further charged with insulting a foreign state. It was alleged that the accused, on January
emblems of the USSR. Consulate and two plate glass panels. Accused said fe came (0 China in 1028 and admitted having smashing the emblems and door panels of the USSR. Consulate-General.
Asked by the Jude why he had committed the offence, the accused replied that he had been wandering in China and unemployed for twenty years and this, the accused said, was owing to the pressure of the USSR. Government. Questioned whether 1 was his intention of insulting the emblem of Soviet Russia, the accused replied that it wi but a revenge only. The question of whether the necused had insulted a foreign state was then raised. The defence contended that the accused was a Russian and the Russian Government was not a foreign state him, but the prosecution pointed out that the accused was a" White Russian, not under the Soviet control, and he had committed the offence in Chinese territory. There fore, it was an Insult to a foreign state, it was argued.
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