Supreme Court · 1956 INSC 31 · Decided 4 May 1956
Jaswantrai Manilal Akhaney v. The State of BOMBAY.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1956 INSC 31 · [1956] 1 S.C.R. 483
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 152/1954
- Decided
- 4 May 1956
- Bench
- VIVIAN BOSE, B. JAGANNADHADAS, BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 409, 79; CrPC Section 221, 222(1); Contract Act Section 409, 79, 179; Companies Act Section 179
Headnote
COURT REPORTS 483 which the State authorities took against the appellants in prosecuting them under section 9 of the Act was unjustified as the slogans uttered by the appellants did not under the circumstances set out above fall within the mischief of that section. Deprecating as we do the charged with the result that the appeal of the appellants will be allowed, their convictions and sen­ tences passed upon them will be set aside and they will be set at liberty forthwith. We only hope that the observations made by us here will be an eye­ opener to the appellants and they
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