Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1500 · Decided 19 December 2008
Harendra Nath Chakraborty v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1500 · [2008] 17 S.C.R. 1439
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2086/2008
- Decided
- 19 December 2008
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, CYRIAC JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 313
Headnote
ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES ACT, 1955: A B S. 7(1)(a)(ii) proviso- Dealer in kerosene - Convicted and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment for non-display of stock C and prices - Sentence reduced to 3 months by High Court - Held: As the appeal of the accused was admitted by High Court only on the question nor Supreme Court was required to go into merits of the matter - However, on merits also, no failure of justice has occasioned 0 nor was the trial in any way unfair - High Court, having taken into consideration entire facts and circumstances, reduced the sentence of iinprisonment from six
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