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Explosive Substance

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Explosive substance, include any materials for mak-ing any explosive substance, also any apparatus, machine, implement or material used, or intended to be used, or adapted for causing, or aiding in causing, any explosion in or with any explosive substance; also any part of any such apparatus, machine or implement, S.K. Shukla v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (2006) 1 SCC 314. (Explosive Substance Act, 1908, s. 2)

It has a broader and more comprehensive meaning than the term 'Explosive'. 'Explosive substance' includes 'Explosive'. The dictionary meaning of the word 'explosive' is 'tending to expand suddenly with loud noise, 'tending to cause explosion' (The Concise Oxford Dictionary), Mohd Usman Mohd Hussain Maniyar v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1981 SC 1062 (1065). [Explosive Substance Act, (6 of 1908), ss. 5, 2]

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