Supreme Court · 1967 INSC 119 · Decided 19 April 1967
State of Maharashtra v. DR. R. B. Chowdhary & 2 ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1967 INSC 119 · [1967] 3 S.C.R. 708
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 11/1965
- Decided
- 19 April 1967
- Bench
- M. HIDAYATULLAH, C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 500; CrPC Section 342
Headnote
Press and Registration of Book.< Act (25 of 1967), s. 7-"Editor", ,.,,/Jo is_:_When presiunplion under the sectt'on could he drawn. The respondents were members of the Editorial Board of a new.· paper. One M, who had made a declaration under s. 5 of the Press and Registration the newspaper also as its editor. A complaint was filed again'! M and the respondents that they published a defamatory article in the newspaper. The High Court, in revision, held that the respondents should be discharged, because, M had admitted in his statement under s. 342, Cr. P.C., that he
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