Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 99 · Decided 11 April 1968
Bhalchandra Alias Bapu & ANR. v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 99 · [1968] 3 S.C.R. 766
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 193/1965
- Decided
- 11 April 1968
- Bench
- M. HIDAYATULLAH, C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM, A.N. GROVER (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304A, 337, 285
Headnote
Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) ss. 304A and 331--Storage of e:t­ pl01ives of higher degree-Explosion-Whether licensus liable criminally. In an explosion which took place, the persons who were working in the factory of the appellants where crackers were being manufactured died or were injured. In appeal to this Court, the appellants contended that criminal liability could not be imposed upon them under ss. 304A and 337 as it had not been established that the deaths cir injuries caused were the direct result of any rash or negligent act on the part of the appellants or that any such
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