Supreme Court · 1960 INSC 246 · Decided 7 December 1960
Surajpal Singh v. The State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1960 INSC 246 · [1961] 2 S.C.R. 971
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 169/1959
- Decided
- 7 December 1960
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, S.K. DAS, A.K. SARKAR, N. RAJAGOPALA AYYANGAR, J.R. MUDHOLKAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 120B, 465; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 5(2), 5(1Xc), 5
Headnote
SUPREME COURT REPORTS 971 SURAJPAL SINGH • v. THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH (B. P. SINHA, c. J., s. K. DAS, .A. K. SARKAR, N. RAJAGOPALA AYYANGAR and J. R. MUDHOLKAR, JJ.) Criminal Misconduct-Acquittal under one category of criminal misconduct charged-Conviction under another category not where articles seized in connection with excise offences were kept in deposit. The appellant was charged under s. 5(1)(c) read with s. 5(2), Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, in that he had dishonestly or fraudulently misappropriated or otherwise converted to his use these articles; the
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