Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 294 · Decided 7 November 1968
Pushkar Mukherjee & ORS. v. The State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 294 · [1969] 2 S.C.R. 635
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 179/1968
- Decided
- 7 November 1968
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, V. RAMASWAMI, A.N. GROVER (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 22, 32
Headnote
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