Supreme Court · 1969 INSC 186 · Decided 18 August 1969
Municipal Council Raipur & AHR. v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1969 INSC 186 · [1970] 1 S.C.R. 915
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 163/1967
- Decided
- 18 August 1969
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, G.K. MITTER, P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 439, 417, 242; Motor Vehicles Act
Headnote
Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961 (27 of 1961), ss. 2(g) and 38- 'Afotor Transport Undertaking', if includes municipality owning transport rehicles used for carriage of goods-:-'Public order' in s. 38-If includes 'public health'. Code of Criminal Procedure (Act 5 of 1898), ss. 243, 244 dismissed without stating particulars of offence to accused-Order, if amounts to discharge or acquittal. The appellant (Municipal Council) owned transport vehicles and used those vehicles for the maintenance of public health in the Municipality by transporting the night soil and refuse df
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