<P> The first case decided by an English jury in India happened in Madras in 1665, for which Ascentia Dawes (probably a British woman) was charged by a grand jury with the murder of her slave girl, and a petty jury, with six Englishmen and six Portuguese, found her not guilty . With the development of the East India Company empire in India, the jury system was implemented inside a dual system of courts: In Presidency Towns (Calcutta, Madras, Bombay), there were Crown Courts and in criminal cases juries had to judge British and European people (as a privilege) and in some cases Indian people; and in the territories outside the Presidency Towns (called "moffussil"), there were Company Courts (composed with Company officials) without jury to judge most of the cases implying indigenous people . </P> <P> After the Crown Government of India (Raj) adopted the Indian Penal Code (1860) and the Indian Code of Criminal Procedure (1861, amended in 1872, 1882, 1898), the criminal jury was obligatory only in the High Courts of the Presidency Towns; elsewhere, it was optional and rarely used . According sections 274 and 275 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the jury was composed from 3 (for smaller offences judged in session courts) to 9 (for severe offences judges in High Courts) men; and when the accused were European or American, at least half of the jurors had to be European or American men . </P> <P> The jury found no place in the 1950 Indian Constitution, and it was ignored in many Indian states . The Law Commission recommended its abolition in 1958 in its 14th Report . Jury trials were abolished in India in most courts except for Matrimonial Disputes of Parsis by a very discrete process during the 1960s, finishing with the 1973 Code of Criminal Procedure, which is still in force today . </P> <P> Parsis in India can LEGALLY use Jury System to decide divorces wherein randomly selected members called ` delegates ` from the community decide the fact of the matrimonial disputes of Parsis . Jury system for Parsi Matrimonial dispute cases is a mix of Panchayat system and Jury system found in US etc. countries . The law which governs this is ` The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 ` as amended in 1988 . </P>

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