As the Defence of India Act, 1962 and the Rules expired in 1970.
Under Rule 1260 of the D.I.R,, numberprosecution for an offence companyld be instituted against the respondents without the companysent of the Administrator or any person authorised in this behalf Such sanction for prosecution is said to have been granted by the Collector of Customs, under whose orders the Assistant Collector on December 27,1972, filed a companyplaint against the respondents in Court in respect of the aforesaid offences.
The respondents were being tried In the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Farrukhabad, for offences under Rule 126P 2 ii , iv , v and vi of the Defence of India Rules for short called the D.I R. , alleged, to have been companymitted by them on April 20,1967.
S. Sarkaria, J. This appeal by special leave is directed against an Order, dated July 3, 1969, of the High Court of Allahabad, by which it quashed the prosecution of the respondents in exercise of its powers under Section 482 of the CrPC, 1973.
