Supreme Court · 1973 INSC 218 · Decided 27 November 1973
Superintendent and Remembrancer of Legal Affairs, West Bengal v. Birendra Chandra Chakravarty
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1973 INSC 218 · [1974] 2 S.C.R. 481
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 145/1970
- Decided
- 27 November 1973
- Bench
- M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG, Y.V. CHANDRACHUD (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 40l, 401, 409
Headnote
481 Indian Penal Code s. 40l-Responden: was actln, as trust11 and attnt of tl11 complainant-Ile transferred certain proptrtles without knowledge of the rlDI owner-. Whether criminally liable in view of innumerable transactions between the parties. The respondent was convicted and sentenced by Magistrate, as trustee and agent of one Saila Bala Devi, for criminal breach of trust for selling 3 bighas of land to the trustees of one Ashoka Trust and for misappro­ priating the proffts thefeof, thereby, committing an offence under s. 401 of the I.P.C. On an appeal by the
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