Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 178 · Decided 21 March 2013
Ahmed Shah Khan Durrani @ A.S. Mubarak v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 178 · [2013] 16 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1438/2007
- Decided
- 21 March 2013
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, B.S. CHAUHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 1208; Arms Act
Headnote
Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987 - s.5 - Bombay serial blasts of 1993 - Possession of weapon B - A-20 charged for keeping one AK-56 rifle and two C magazines - Conviction of A-20 - Justification - Held: Justified - Sufficient material to show that recovery had been made of A-20 from the factory owned by a partnership to which he was the partner - In such a fact­ situation, he' ought to have explained the reason/source of his D knowledge of such contraband articles being kept in his factory - . - As he had not mentioned that he had seen someone . keeping the
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