Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 93 · Decided 24 March 1971
Cricket Association of Bengal & ORS. v. State of West Bengal & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 93 · [1971] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 200
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 270/1968
- Decided
- 24 March 1971
- Bench
- C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM, A.N. RAY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 336; CrPC Section 253(2), 204(3), 248
Headnote
E F G H CRICKET ASSOCIATION OF BENGAL & ORS. v. STATE OF WEST BENGAL & ORS. March 24, 1971 [C. A. VAIDIALINGAM AND A. N. RAY, JJ.J Practice-High Court-Suo Motu lnterference with orders of low!!r courts under Crilninal Procedure Code-Propriety. Code of Criminal Procedure (Act 5 of 1898), 338, 1.P.C., read with s. 114, that they were rash and negligent in the matter of making seating arrangements etc., for spectators of a cricket match, with the result that the spectators became unruly and the police resorted to lathi charge and the bursting of tear gas shells, causing injuries to
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