Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 157 · Decided 23 August 1979
SUPDT. & Remembrancer of Legal Affairs West Bengal v. Anil Kumar Bhunja & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 157 · [1980] 1 S.C.R. 323
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 98/1973
- Decided
- 23 August 1979
- Bench
- R.S. SARKARIA, P.N. SHINGAL, O. CHINNAPPA REDDY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Arms Act Section 29(b)
Headnote
.Arms Act 1959 (4 of 1959)-S. 29(b)-Scope of-Giving of fire-arms ifor limited purpose of repairs-Whether amounts to delivery of 'possession'­ Great caution and discenunent necessary in the application of the ratio of ca.~es <decided under the Arms Act of 1878 to those under the present Act. of-S. 29(b) Arms Act, 1959. B c The prosecution alleged that the police officers of the appellant state while ~nvestigating a case discovered a workshop run by a mechanic who was then .actually working on a revolver. Several other guns, revolvers and rifles were found in the workshop and all
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