Supreme Court · 1961 INSC 159 · Decided 18 April 1961
Ram Chandra Prasad v. The State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1961 INSC 159 · [1962] 2 S.C.R. 50
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 168/1959
- Decided
- 18 April 1961
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, RAGHUBAR DAYAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 5(2); CrPC; Constitution Article 21; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 4, 5(2)
Headnote
IR. 50 1'UPRJ£ME COURT REPOR'l'S [1962] RAM CHANDRA PBASAD v. THE STATE OF BIHAR (K. 8UBBA RAO and RAGHUBAR DAYAJ,, JJ.) ~ Criminal Trial-Corruption -Special Judge-Territorial juris- 11 diction-Defect of, if curable-Presumption as to guilt-Whether , procedure established by law-Prevention of Arts. 216 and 145(3). The appellant accepted a sum of Rs. 10,000 from a con­ tractor. He was chalanned before a Magistrate at Dhanbad; but on an application by the appellant the High Court trans­ ferred the case to the Munsif-Magistrate, Patna. Subsequently, the Criminal Law Amendment
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