Supreme Court · 1980 INSC 41 · Decided 5 March 1980
Advocate General, State of Bihar v. Madhya Pradesh Khair Industries LTD.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1980 INSC 41 · [1980] 2 S.C.R. 1172
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 349/1974
- Decided
- 5 March 1980
- Bench
- R.S. SARKARIA, O. CHINNAPPA REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Constitution
Headnote
Criminal Contempt-Section 2(C) of the Contempts of Courts Act, 1971, Seope of-Statutory Limitation under Section 20 of the Act; computation of. The respondents were the successful bidd'ers at an auction of forest coupes­ in the State of Bihar. As they defaulted in making the security deposit the agreements With them were determined by the Con­ servator of Forests. The respondents thereupon filed a writ petition in the Calcutta High Court instead of in the Patna High Court and followed it up with several applications one after another both in tlie Calcutta and Pain" High
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