Supreme Court · 1960 INSC 123 · Decided 16 August 1960
Director of Rationing and Distribution v. The Corporation of Calcutta and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1960 INSC 123 · [1961] 1 S.C.R. 158
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 158/1956
- Decided
- 16 August 1960
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, SYED JAFFER IMAM, A.K. SARKAR, K.N. WANCHOO, J.C. SHAH (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 372, 300
Headnote
SUPREME COURT REPORTS DIRECTOR OF RATIONING AND DISTRIBUTION v. THE COHPORATION OF CALCUTTA .\ND OTHERS (1961] (B. P. SINHA, c. J., JAFER IMAM,·A. K. SARKAR, K. N. WANCHOO and J. C. SHAH, JJ.) Statute, interpretation of-State, if bound by stat11te--Pri1ici­ plcs applicable--" etc. \vithout taking ~ut any license undc. s. 386(1)(a) of the Calcutta Municipal Act, 1923. The respon· dent f1Jccl a complaint against the appellant for a contravention of s. 306(1)(a). The trial ~lagistratc acquitted the appellant holding that the provisions of s. 386(1)(a), neither
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