Supreme Court · 1956 INSC 74 · Decided 28 November 1956
A. S. Krishna v. State of MADRAS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1956 INSC 74 · [1957] 1 S.C.R. 399
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 20/1955
- Decided
- 28 November 1956
- Bench
- SUDHI RANJAN DAS, NATWARLAL HARILAL BHAGWATI, T.L. VENKATARAMA AIYYAR, BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, S.K. DAS (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 432; Evidence Act; Constitution Article 14
Headnote
COURT REPORTS 399 A. S. KRISHNA t!. STATE OF MADRAS. (with connected appeals) (S. R. DAS C.J., BHAGWATI, VENKATARAMA AYYAR, B. P. SINHA and S. K. DAs, JJ.) Madras Prohibition Act, 1937 (Mad. X of 1937), ss. 4(1), 4(2), 28, 29, 30, 31, 32-Constitutional validity-Legislative competency­ Pith before the Presidency Magistrate for offences under the Madras Prohibition Act, 1937 and when the cases were taken up for trial they raised the contentions that ss. 4(2) and 28 to 32 of the Act are void under s. 107(1) of the Government of India Act, 1935, because they are repugnant to the
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