Supreme Court · 1990 INSC 196 · Decided 10 July 1990
State of Madhya Pradesh and ORS. v. Rameshwar Rathod
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1990 INSC 196 · [1990] 3 S.C.R. 263
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 679/1978
- Decided
- 10 July 1990
- Bench
- SABYASACHI MUKHERJI, K.N. SAIKIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC; Constitution Article 226, 227
Headnote
MADHYA PRADESH AND ORS. A v. RAMESHWAR RATHOD JULY 10, .1990 [SABYASACHI MUKHARJI, CJ. AND K.N. SAIKIA, J.] B Essential Commodities Act, 1955: Section 6A-Whether prospec­ tive or retrospective. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898/ 1973: Sections 516A and 523/ 451 and 457-Whether criminal court normally prospective-Could be retrospective depending on nature of statute and purpose of provision. The respondent's truck was seized by the police on loth Decem­ ber, 1974 for aUeged contravention of the provisions of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 on the night of 15th March, 1972.
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