Supreme Court · 1957 INSC 107 · Decided 26 November 1957
Indu Bhusan Chatterjee v. The State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1957 INSC 107 · [1958] 1 S.C.R. 1001
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 18/1955
- Decided
- 26 November 1957
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, SYED JAFFER IMAM, J.L. KAPUR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 5(2), 6, 161; Constitution Article 134(l)(c); Prevention of Corruption Act Section 5(2)
Headnote
COURT REPORTS 1001 the Act, it is not necessary for us to go into the other 1957 points raised in the petition. We, therefore, direct Choudhury Dharam that a writ be issued as prayed for and the petitioner Singh Rathi be set at liberty forthwith. v. The State of Punjab Wrjt issued. Petitioner set of Corruption Act, 1947 (2 of 1947), ss. 5 (2), 6-Indian Penal Code (Act 45 of 1860), s. 161. The appellant, a public servant, was convicted under s. 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1917, and under s. 161 of the Indian Penal Code on a charge of accepting a sum of Rs. 100 as
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