Supreme Court · 1983 INSC 137 · Decided 30 September 1983
Vishwa Mitter v. O. P. Poddar and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1983 INSC 137 · [1984] 1 S.C.R. 176
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 516/1983
- Decided
- 30 September 1983
- Bench
- D.A. DESAI, AMARENDRA NATH SEN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 420; CrPC Section 420, 4, 190
Headnote
Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958-0jfences under ss. 78 Qnd 79- Jndian Penal Code-Offence under s. 420-Code of Criminal Procedure 1973- Sub-ss. (I) _and (2) of s. 4 r~ad with s. 190-Court cannot decline td take cogni· zance of complaint on. the sole gtound that complainant was not of beedies and as the consti~ tuted attorney of the firm_ manufa~turing a particular brand of beedies, filed a con1plaint alleging comrnissio~ of offences by the respondents under ss. 78 and 79 of the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 and s. 420, I.P.C. The Magistrate, after a preliminary
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