Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated September 3, 1963 of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Criminal Revision Case No, 132 of 1963 and Cr.
The appellant then raised two preliminary objections the first was that as the companymodity was obtained and disposed of at Bombay, the Court at Secunderabad had numberjurisdiction to try him.
R. Chaudhry and B. R. G. K. Achar, for the respondent.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Hidayatullah J. The appellant is being prosecuted under s. 420, Indian Penal Code and under S. 7 of the Essential Com modities Act, 1955 for companytravention of cls.
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4 and 5 of the Iron an ,I Steel Control Order.
Learned City Magistrate of Secunderabad framed a charge against him under s. 251A 3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in respect of both the offences.
49 of 1964.
118 of 1963.
The prosecution was companymenced by the Inspector of Police, Crime Branch, C.I.D., Hyderabad by filing against him a charge sheet tinder S. 173 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in respect of the offence of cheating which was intended to serve also as a report in writing of a public servant as required by S. 11 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955.
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L. Jain, K. Jayaram, for J. R. Gagrat, for the appellant.
