Supreme Court · 1954 INSC 47 · Decided 19 April 1954
The State of Madras v. C. G. Menon and ANOTHER.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1954 INSC 47 · [1955] 1 S.C.R. 280
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 33/1953
- Decided
- 19 April 1954
- Bench
- MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, SUDHI RANJAN DAS, GHULAM HASAN, NATWARLAL HARILAL BHAGWATI, B. JAGANNADHADAS (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 432; Constitution Article 372, 132(1)
Headnote
280 SUPREME COURT REPORTS (1955] THE STATE OF MADRAS f). C. G. MENON AND ANOTHER. (MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN C.J., s. R. DAS, GHULAM HASAN, BHAGWATI and JAGANNADHADAS JJ.] Constitution of India-India-Sovereign Democratic Republic -Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881 (44 Victoria Chapt<r 69), ss. 12 and of independence and the coming into fOrce of the new Constitution India became a Sovereign Demo­ cratic Republic and could not be described as a British Possession or grouped by an Order-in-Council amongst those Possessions within the meaning of s. 12 of the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881.
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