Supreme Court · 1981 INSC 20 · Decided 30 January 1981
State of Maharashtra v. Kapur Chand Kesarimal Jain
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1981 INSC 20 · [1981] 2 S.C.R. 735
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 365/1975
- Decided
- 30 January 1981
- Bench
- A.D. KOSHAL, V. BALAKRISHNA ERADI, R.B. MISRA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Customs Act Section 135
Headnote
B Probation of Offenders Act-Section 4--Criteria for application of section. The respondent was convicted for offences under section 135 of the Customs Act and the Defence of India Rules for smuggling contraband gold into the country and was variously sentenced. When his appeal came to this Court, On remand the High Court accepted the prayer of the respondent that he be given the benefit of section 4 of the Probation of Offenders Act on the grounds that the contraband golCI recovered from him had been confis­ cated; that he had been facing criminal litigation for a period of
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