Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 54 · Decided 6 March 1970
Chaman Lal v. The State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 54 · [1970] 3 S.C.R. 913
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 138/1967
- Decided
- 6 March 1970
- Bench
- A.N. RAY, I.D. DUA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 499, 500
Headnote
E F G H CHAMAN LAL v. THE STATE OF PUNJAB March 6, 1970 [A. N. RAY AND I. D. DUA, JJ.J 913 Indian Penal Code, 1860, ss. 499 and 500-Plea of justification under exception.\· 1, 8 and 9 of s. 499-Scope of-When docu111ents privileged, The appellant, who was the President of the local Municipal attached to the Civil Dispensary, at a public meeting; that he wrote a letter to the Civil Su'rgeon which con­ tained defamatory statements against he•r character and also repeated the defamatory allegations before the Civil Surgeon. The appellant's plea of justification under exc~ptions
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