Supreme Court · 1981 INSC 112 · Decided 7 May 1981
State of Karnataka v. Krishna Bhima Walvakar & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1981 INSC 112 · [1981] 3 S.C.R. 829
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 669/1980
- Decided
- 7 May 1981
- Bench
- O. CHINNAPPA REDDY, A.P. SEN, BAHARUL ISLAM (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
Essential Commodities Act, 1957-Sections 6A, 6B & 6C-Scope of-Consign­ ment moved on a Sunday-Whether exonerates the consignee from making the requisite declaration before the specified authority. Interpretation-Power coupled with public duty-Whether use of word 'may' in an order makes the Oil Cakes (Declaration B c of Stocks) Order, 1976 enjoins that before a consignment of oil leaves a place a D stock holder who transports edible-oils shall make a declaration in Form II to the specified officer of the place (in this case the Tehsildar of the) Taluk from where such edible oils
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