Supreme Court · 1959 INSC 155 · Decided 2 December 1959
Chaturbhai M. Patel v. The Union of India and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1959 INSC 155 · [1960] 2 S.C.R. 362
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 9/1957
- Decided
- 2 December 1959
- Bench
- SYED JAFFER IMAM, S.K. DAS, J.L. KAPUR, A.K. SARKAR, M. HIDAYATULLAH (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Constitution Article 32
Headnote
COURT REPORTS [1960 (2)] '959 In those circumstances, the trial under s. 339 was held The State to be bad. We are not concerned in the present case v. with s. 339. What we have to decide is whether a Hiralal G. Kothari pardon under s. 337(1) of the Code of Criminal Pro- and Others cedure can be namely, that no pardon can be granted for an offence of this nature. Therefore, as the present proceedings before the magistrate are only for an offence under s. 5 of the Official Secrets Act re»d with s. 120-B of the Indian Penal Code, Mehra cannot be examined as an approver in that
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