Supreme Court · 1981 INSC 140 · Decided 12 August 1981
State of Maharashtra v. Champalal Punjaji Shah
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1981 INSC 140 · [1982] 1 S.C.R. 299
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 126/1975
- Decided
- 12 August 1981
- Bench
- O. CHINNAPPA REDDY, A.P. SEN, BAHARUL ISLAM (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 135; Constitution Article 21, 136; Customs Act Section 135
Headnote
' 299 STATE OF MAHARASHTRA v. CHAMPALAL PUNJAJI SHAH August 12, 1981 (0. CHINNAPPA REDDY, A.P. SEN AND BAHARUL ISLAM, JJ.J Customs Act, section 135-Gold bars with foreign markings discovered in the house of accused-Trial delayed for many years by action of accused-Delay­ Whether a mitigating trials. Under the present system of criminal justice an accused person resolutely minded to delay the day of reckoning, may quite conveniently and comfortably do so, if he can but afford the cost involved, by journ~ying back and forth between the court of first instance and the superior Courts at
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