Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 73 · Decided 24 March 1970
Collector of Customs, New Delhi v. Ghulam Sarwar and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 73 · [1971] 1 S.C.R. 112
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 207/1969
- Decided
- 24 March 1970
- Bench
- VISHISHTHA BHARGAVA, C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Customs Act Section 104, 135, 23, 167
Headnote
Criminal trial-Delay in putting up conspiracy case-Accused praying for separation of trial of his case and pleading guilty-Procedure to he followed by Court. The respondent was a Pakistani national and \Vas arrested on 8th May 1964, and imme<liately after his arrest he made a confession before and separate conspiracies with various co-accused. But the customs authorities assun1ed that there was onlv one conspiracy and th:1t the respondent had incorrectly shown two sep-arate conspiracies. Three cases \Vere filed against him charging him with offences under the Regis­ tration of
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