Supreme Court · 1957 INSC 83 · Decided 11 October 1957
Ramaswamy Nadar v. The State of Madras
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1957 INSC 83 · [1958] 1 S.C.R. 739
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 153/1957
- Decided
- 11 October 1957
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, P. GOVINDA MENON, J.L. KAPUR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 420, 403; CrPC Section 403, 420
Headnote
COURT REPORTS RAMASWAMY NADAR v. THE STATE OF MADRAS ( B. P. SINHA, P. GoVINDA MENON and J. L. KAPu:R, JJ.) 739 Criminal law-Misappropriation-Prize Competition­ Entry fees-No rule th0;t amount ?f fees should ?e re~erved for payment to prize winners-Failure to pay prize winners -Whether of 1898), s. 423 (1) (a) (b). The appellant, who used to carry on the business of con­ ducting prize competitions, was prosecuted on a charge under s. 420 of the Indian Penal Code. The case against him wu that though he found that his competitions did not attract a sufficiently large number of
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