Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1001 · Decided 4 September 2019
The State of Uttar Pradesh v. Aman Mittal & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1001 · [2019] 11 S.C.R. 1180
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1328/2019
- Decided
- 4 September 2019
- Bench
- L. NAGESWARA RAO, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 265, 267, 420, 34, 120B, 467, 468, 471; CrPC Section 153, 482
Headnote
Legal Metrology Act, 2009: ss.3 and 51 - Proceedings u/ss. 265, 267, 420, 34, 120B, 467, 468 and 471 of IPC; u/ss. 3 and 7 of Essential Commodities Act, 1955; u/ss. 12/30 of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 and u/ss.12/ 30 of the Legal Metrology Act - Applicability of IPC - Held: The Act is a special Act vis-a-vis IPC - Section 3 of the Act completely overrides the provisions of Chapter XIII of IPC in respect of the offences and penalties imposable for violations of the provisions of the Act, it being a special Act - Therefore, if offence is made out
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