Supreme Court · 1956 INSC 33 · Decided 8 May 1956
BHAGUBHAI. Dullabhabhai Bhandari v. The Distrlct Magistrate, Thana & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1956 INSC 33 · [1956] 1 S.C.R. 533
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 439/1955
- Decided
- 8 May 1956
- Bench
- SUDHI RANJAN DAS, B. JAGANNADHADAS, T.L. VENKATARAMA AIYYAR, BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, SYED JAFFER IMAM (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 19, 32
Headnote
COURT REPORTS 533 BHAGUBHAI. DULLABHABHAI BHANDARI v. THE DISTRlCT MAGISTRATE, TRANA & OTHERS (with connected petition) [S. R~ DAS c. J., JAGANNADHADAS, VENKATARAMA AYYAR, B. P. SINHA and JAFER IMAM JJ.] Bombay Police Act, 1951 (Bombay Act XXII of 1951), s. 56- 0onstitutional validity-Order Art. 19. Section 56 of the Bombay Police Act, 1951, is not unconstitu· tional and does not contravene the provisions of Art. 19 of the Constitution. Gurbachan Singh v. State of Bombay ( [1952) S.C.R. 737), followed. In order to attract the operation of the section the Officer con·
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