Supreme Court · 1959 INSC 117 · Decided 15 September 1959
Chimanlal Premchand v. The State of Bombay
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1959 INSC 117 · [1960] 1 S.C.R. 764
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 200/1957
- Decided
- 15 September 1959
- Bench
- SYED JAFFER IMAM, K. SUBBA RAO (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
COURT REPORTS [1960(1)] r959 was a graver offence; sometimes involving the security of the State, and so an amendment was introduced in J ethanand Bet ab v. 1949 constituting the possession of such apparatus a The State of Delhi graver offence and imposing a more severe punish­ ment. not serving any definite purpose. Even from the history of the legislation we find it not possible to say that it disclosed an intention different from th11t envisaged in r959 September r5. s. 6-A of the General Clauses Act. For the aforesaid reasons, we hold that s. 6 (1-A) of the Act
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