C. Chatterjee, Mehar Singh Chaddah A. K. Nag and I. S. Sawhney, for the respondent.
256 D of 1961.,
his arrest in December, 1960, employed in the delegation in India of a French companypany.
Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated May 10, 1961, of the Punjab High Court Circuit Bench at Delhi in Criminal Misc.
XIX of 1923, hereinafter called the Act The respondent is, a former captain of the Indian Army and was at the time of.
K. Daphtary, Solicitor General of India, Bepin Behari Lal, T. M. Sen and R. H. Dhebar, for the appellant.
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION, Criminal Appeal No.
The case against the three persons was that they in companyspiracy had passed on official secrets to a foreign agency.
The bail granted to the respondent was cancelled by an interim order by.
The Judgment of, the Court was delivered.
The other two persons were employed in the Ministry of Defence and the Army Headquarters, New Delhi.
Thereupon the State made an application for special leave which was granted.
September 14.
Thereupon the respondent applied under s. 498 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to the High Court, and the main companytention urged before the High Court was that on the facts disclosed the case against the respondent companyld only be under s 5 of the.
The respondent applied for bail to the Sessions Judge but his application was rejected by the Additional Sessions Judge, Delhi.
3 and 5 of the Indian Official Secrets Act, No.
118 of 1961.
by WANCHOO, J. The respondent Jagjit Singh along with two others was prosecuted for companyspiracy and also under ss.
