Supreme Court · 1975 INSC 181 · Decided 27 August 1975
Gvindlal Chhaggan Lal Patel v. The Agricultural Produce Market Committee, Godhra and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1975 INSC 181 · [1976] 1 S.C.R. 451
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 158/1972
- Decided
- 27 August 1975
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, P.N. BHAGWATI, R.S. SARKARIA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Mandatory and Directory Provision-Bon1bay Agricultu,~a[ Produce /V{arkets Act, 1939-Section 4 Gujarat Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961, ss. 5 and 6, 36-When ·shqll' means •may'-Principles of constitution of a sratu:e­ If language p{ain and unambiguous, whether aid to inter­ pretation possible. The appellant was prosecuted for having purchased a certain quantity of ginger without obtaining a licence as required by the Gujarat Agricultural Pro­ duce 11arkets Act, 1964. The trial court accepted the factum of purchase but it acquitted the appellant
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