Supreme Court · 1952 INSC 11 · Decided 27 February 1952
Mohammad Yasin v. The Town Area Committee, Jalalabad and Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1952 INSC 11 · [1952] 1 S.C.R. 572
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 132/1951
- Decided
- 27 February 1952
- Bench
- M. PATANJALI SASTRI, MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, BIJAN KUMAR MUKHERJEA, SUDHI RANJAN DAS, N. CHANDRASEKHARA AIYAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Amount Awarded
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 19(1)(g), 32
Headnote
v. The State. Boil /, 1952 Feb. 27. 572 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [1952] on the doors were not the isolated acts of a few scattered individuals. It was the mob that was doing it .and in the High Court's words, "The very fact that in the town of Katni two shots should have struck four Sindhis spurred them on ransacked and looted the place. more force far from and they We have confined our attention to the right of pri- vate defence of the person though in this case the question about the defence of property happens to be bound up with it. The appeal is allowed. The convictions and
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