Supreme Court · 1951 INSC 19 · Decided 19 March 1951
Ravula Hariprasada Rao v. The State
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1951 INSC 19 · [1951] 1 S.C.R. 322
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 15/1950
- Decided
- 19 March 1951
- Bench
- MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, BIJAN KUMAR MUKHERJEA, SIR SYED FAZL ALI, N. CHANDRASEKHARA AIYAR (4-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
19, 322 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [h)51] RAVULA HARIPRASADA RAO 11. THE STATE. [SAIYID FAZL ALI, MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, MUKHERJEA, and CHANDRASEKHARA AIYAR JJ.] Criminal law-Mens rea-'-M otor Spirit Rationing Order, 1.941, els. 22, 25, '1:1-Defence of India Rules, 1939, r. 81 (4)-Supply of petrol without rules out mens rea as a constituent part of the crime, a person should not be found guilty of an offence against the criminal law unless he has got a guilty mind. Clauses 22 and 25 of the Motor Spirit Rationing Order, 1941, read with the Defence of India Rules, 1939, do not rule out the
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