Supreme Court · 1957 INSC 47 · Decided 10 May 1957
Menakuru Dasaratharami Reddi v. Duddukuru Subba Rao
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1957 INSC 47 · [1957] 1 S.C.R. 1122
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 195/1952
- Decided
- 10 May 1957
- Bench
- SUDHI RANJAN DAS, SYED JAFFER IMAM, P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR, A.K. SARKAR (4-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 92
Headnote
.Amlltalal Metlio v. T lu Collector of Customs, Cakutta 1957 Ma7 IO. 1122 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [1957J smuggled goods. It is only those goods which answer the threefold description that come under the operation of the section. The object of the Act is to prevent smuggling. The differentia on the presumption only attaches to goods of the description mentioned in the section and it directly furthers the object of the Act, namely, the prevention of smuggling, and that being the position the impugned section is clearly within the principle enunciated above, not hit by Art. 14. The impugned
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