Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 414 · Decided 14 May 2015
Devi Das Ramachandra Tuljapurkar v. State of Maharashtra& ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 414 · [2015] 7 S.C.R. 853
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1179/2010
- Decided
- 14 May 2015
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, PRAFULLA C. PANT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 292; CrPC Section 292; Constitution
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: c s. 292 - Framing of charges under-Against the author, publisher and the printer of a poem 'Gandhi Mala Bhetala'('I met GandhiJ - Charges framed-Application by the accused . for discharging them - Rejected by trial court - Order D confirmed by the revisional court as well as On appeal, held: The view of High Court pertaining to framing of charges as against the poet cannot be flawed- Whether the poem has any other layer of meaning or not, cannot be gone into, at the time of framing of charges- It shall be open E for the poet to put his defense at the trial - However,
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