Supreme Court · 1954 INSC 56 · Decided 29 April 1954
Virendra Singh and Others v. The State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1954 INSC 56 · [1955] 1 S.C.R. 415
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 37/1953
- Decided
- 29 April 1954
- Bench
- MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, BIJAN KUMAR MUKHERJEA, VIVIAN BOSE, NATWARLAL HARILAL BHAGWATI, T.L. VENKATARAMA AIYYAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 523; Constitution Article 5, 19(f), 31(1), 32(2), 131, 32
Headnote
COURT REPORTS 415 -r and with the help of the Chamba police seize the goods and attempt to take them to Jammu by a letter of request written by the District Magistrate of Jammu to the District Magistrate of Chamba. Lastly it was argued that the petitioner made an application under section 523, had been taken, article 226 could not be availed of. This con­ tention cannot be sustained, firstly in view of the fact that section 523 has no application to the facts and circumstances of this case, and the magistrate had no jurisdiction to return these goods to the petitioner. Secondly, the
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