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Arjun Gopal Vs. Union of India .

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... explosives is given in schedule i to the explosives rules, 2008 (for short the rules ) and class 7 thereof relates to fireworks ..... of fireworks. for this purpose, it is necessary to appreciate the scheme of the explosives act and the rules so that appropriate remedial steps can be taken in accordance with the provisions of the law.36. section 4 of the explosives act, 1884 (for short the act ) contains various definitions. section 4(d) defines the word explosive and it includes, amongst others, fireworks. in this context, the classification of .....

Lopchand Naruji Jat and anr. Vs. State of Gujarat

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 2004(2)ALD(Cri)903; 2004CriLJ4241; [2004(4)JCR156(SC)]; JT2004(8)SC226; 2004(7)SCALE644; (2004)7SCC566; 2005(1)LC82(SC)

..... . appellants call in question legality of the judgment rendered by a learned single judge of the gujarat high court upholding their conviction for offence punishable under section 9b(i)(b) of the explosive act 1884 (in short the 'act'). the trial court sentenced each of the appellants to undergo imprisonment for one year and pay a fine of rs. 1,000/- with default stipulation.2 ..... wire were recovered. these articles are undisputedly covered by class-6 as quoted above.8. the substances recovered from the appellants clearly come within the definition of 'explosive' as per section 4(d) of the act. when the investigating officer was found to be trustful and in spite of incisive cross-examination, nothing material has been brought to discredit his evidence, the trial .....

Chandra Prakash Vs. State of Rajasthan

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... of the fir, offences under section 120-b read with sections 307 and 427 ipc, under section 3 of the prevention of damage to public property act, 1984 and under section 3 of the explosive substances act, 1908 (for short the 1908 act ) and also under section 9b of the explosive act, 1884 (for brevity the 1884 act ) were registered and the ..... one of gulla and 15 of fuse wire, were seized.65. section 2 of the 1908 act has a deeming provision which states that explosive substance would include any materials for making any explosive substance. similarly, section 4(d) of the 1884 act has a broader spectrum which includes coloured fires or any other substances ..... , mere possession cannot bring the accused chandra prakash within the ambit of any offence. in this regard, we may refer to section 4(d) of the 1884 act. it reads as follows: - (d) explosive means gunpowder, nitroglycerine, nitroglycol, guncotton, di-nitro-toluene, tri-nitro-toluene, picric acid, di- nitro-phenol, tri-nitro-resorcinol .....

Lakhi Narayan Das and ors. Vs. the Province of Bihar

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : [1950]SuppSCR102

..... does not purport to be exhausted or unqualified and various provisions for arrest without warrant are to be found in other acts e.g., police act, arms act, explosives act, indian railways act, etc.; and section 1 (2) of the criminal procedure code expressly lays down that the provisions of the code would not affect any special form ..... of procedure prescribed by any law for the time being in force. the provision of section 21 of the ordinance cannot be said therefore to be repugnant to section ..... province by the provincial list without any necessity to invoke powers from the concurrent list. in these circumstances, no question of repugnancy under section 107 of the constitution act did at all arise or fall for consideration. it will be seen that while this court based its decision in meghraj's case .....

Pannalal Jankidas Vs. Mohanlal and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1951SC144; (1951)53BOMLR472; (1951)IMLJ314(SC); [1950]1SCR979; [1950]SuppSCR979

..... or against any other person whatsoever. it was urged that in establishing their claim, the respondents must plead the right to recover the amount due to explosion and that was barred under section 18(2). in our opinion, this contention is unsound. the appellants have filed this suit to recover the price of the goods on the ground ..... maintainable in any court against the crown..... or against any servants or agents of the crown... or against any other person whomsoever; and no act or omission which caused or contributed to the explosion shall be deemed to have been done or omitted to be done otherwise than lawfully.' 26. it is admitted that the appellants recovered from ..... breach of contract between two contracting parties or a neglect of duty by agents in failing to carry out the instructions of their principal. although the indian contract act makes separate provisions for the consequences in each case, the rule laid down as to measure of damages is the same, namely, the party in breach must .....

Tarapada De and ors. Vs. the State of West Bengal

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1951SC174; 1951CriLJ400; (1951)IMLJ431(SC); [1951]2SCR212

..... one of them : 'you are being detained in pursuance of a detention order made under sub-clause (ii) of clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 3 of the preventive detention act, 1950, (act iv of 1950), on the following grounds :- (1) that you have been assisting the operations of the communist party of india, which along ..... with its volunteer organisations has been declared unlawful by government under section 16 of the indian criminal law amendment act (act xiv of 1908), and which has for its object commission of rioting with deadly weapons, robbery, dacoity, arson and murder and possession and use ..... of arms and ammunitions and explosives and thus acting in a manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order and that it is necessary to prevent you from acting in such manner. (2) that as a member of the c.p.i. on its kishan .....

Manohar Lal Vs. the State

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1951SC315; (1951)IIMLJ139(SC); [1951]2SCR671

..... or, for that matter, a right to sell. all it says is that he, being a member of the family, shall not be affected by the provisions of the act. section 7(1), on the other hand, is directed against the owner of the shop, not against his family. it compels the owner to keep his shop closed one day in ..... government could, under that entry, regulate the hours, place, date and manner of sale of any particular commodity or commodities. it could, for example, state that the sale of explosives or other dangerous substances should only be in selected areas, at specified times or on specified days when extra precautions for the general safety of the public and those directly ..... that in selling the article of haberdashery on a close day and in not observing monday as a close day the appellant had infringed the provisions of the section 7(1) of the act. he accordingly convicted him and imposed a fine of rs. 20. a revision application to the high court failed. the high court held that as the appellant .....

The State of West Bengal Vs. Anwar Ali Sarkar

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1952SC75; 1952CriLJ510; [1952]1SCR284

..... that the cases were of a very exceptional character and although the offences committed were technically offences defined in the indian penal code, the indian arms act and the high explosives act, it would be futile to contend that the offenders in these cases were of the same class as ordinary criminals, committing the same offences or ..... in respect of other cases involving the same offences the order still remains. amongst other important changes, reference may be made to the provision of section 13 of the act which empowers the special court to convict an accused of any offence if the commission of such offence is proved during trial, although he was not ..... trial is not a well-defined classification. it is too indefinite and there an hardly be any definite objective test to determine it.' 7. before considering whether section 5 (1) infringes, to any and what extent, the constitutional prohibition under article 14, it is necessary to ascertain the true scope and intendment of the impugned .....

S.A.A. Biyabani Vs. the State of Madras

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1954SC645

..... state also laid particular stress on the following portion of the answer of the appellant to the charge framed against him.'owing to the very disturbed conditions and explosive situation immediately after the police action i could not make bold to show out. after the situation considerably eased up by december 1948 i returned to kurnool, ..... for reinstatement.his prayer for reinstatement was refused and the present prosecution was initiated. on these facts a charge was framed against the appellant under section 44 of the madras district police act. the explanation offered by the appellant in answer to the charge was as follows. during the period of his sanctioned leave, his eldest boy ..... is that the prosecution has to make out that the cessation of the appellant from duty was intentional. it is not disputed that under section 44 of the madras district police act, it is the prosecution that has to make out the cessation to be intentional. no doubt in an ordinary case where no other special .....

Shamrao Vishnu Parulekar Vs. the District Magistrate, Thana

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1957SC23; 1957(0)BLJR1; (1957)59BOMLR83; 1957CriLJ5; [1956]1SCR644

..... it. the complaint that the grounds are vague must therefore fail.5. as regards the second contention, it will be useful to set out the relevant sections of the act bearing on the question :section 3(1) 'the central government or the state government may - (a) if satisfied with respect to any person that with a view to preventing ..... detention on two grounds. they contend firstly that the grounds for the order of detention which were furnished to them under section 7 of the act are vague, and secondly that the requirements of section 3(3) of the act had not been complied with, in that those grounds had been sent to the state government by the district magistrate, ..... if satisfied with respect to any person who is a foreigner within the meaning of the foreigners act, 1946 (xxxi of 1946), that with a view to regulating his continued presence in india or with a view to making arrangements for his explosion from india, it is necessary so to do, make an order directing that such person be detained .....