Appoo and Cautan, two bandit chiefs who had terrorized the districts of Malabar, Coimbatore, Salem and Trichinopoly, are captured, tried and executed, along with some of their followers, at Kumbakonam, on 18 Jan 1828 - Sambiah, a Police Amin, who had allegedly colluded with the bandits is dismiss...
Enactment of Regulation 8 of 1829 to provide a specific punishment for those who steal, alter or destroy judicial records and to clarify the procedure for trying persons guilty of perjury or subornation of perjury.