Supreme Court · 1954 INSC 22 · Decided 12 March 1954
The State of Rajasthan v. Nath Mal and Mitha Mal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1954 INSC 22 · [1954] 1 S.C.R. 982
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 136/1952
- Decided
- 12 March 1954
- Bench
- MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, BIJAN KUMAR MUKHERJEA, SUDHI RANJAN DAS, VIVIAN BOSE, GHULAM HASAN (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 19(1)(1), 31(2), 19(l)(f), 226, 14, 19(1)(g)
Headnote
Issa v. The Stak of Bombay. Ghulam Hasan J, 1954 March 12 982 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [1954} inappropriate in a case where the accused is prosecuted for an offence punishable with a maximum sentence of 3 months and a fine of Rs. 100. It was certainly open to the court to order the property to be claims about its possession. Admittedly there was no evidence to prove that it was stolen, or that it was fraudulently obtained and all that was found was that there was reason to believe that it was stolen or fraudulently obtained and that the appellant failed to account for its possession to
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