Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 298 · Decided 23 July 2012
State of Bihar & ANR. v. Arvind Kumar & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 298 · [2012] 7 S.C.R. 117
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1075/2012
- Decided
- 23 July 2012
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, SWATANTER KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 4211424, 421, 424
Headnote
Essential Commodities Act, 1955 - ss. 3, 6-A, 7 and 10 A B - Seizure of wheat - From the premises of respondent - No one came forward to claim the seized material - FIR u/ss. 7 C and 10 of the Act and ulss. 4211424 IPC - Writ petition seeking quashing of FIR and in the alternative order for release of wheat - Respondents' application for release of wheat dismissed by CJM on the ground that they failed to prove their ownership over the seized D material - Respondents' Petition against the order of CJM allowed by High Court - On appeal, held: The question of ownership over the
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