Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated May 7, 1957, of the Allahabad High Court in Criminal Misc.
A.I.R. 1950 An.
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No.
It is the validity of this order that is challenged in the present appeal.
74 of 1961.
Veda Vyas, S. K. Kapur and Ganpat Rai, for the appellant.
That order, so far as material, was in the following terms In exercise of its powers companyferred by section 99A of the Code of Criminal Procedure the Government is pleased to declare the books forfeited to Government on the ground that the said books companytain matter, the publication of which is punishable under section 153 A and 295 A of the Indian Penal Code.
April 27.
The Judgment of Gajendragadkar, Sarkar, Wanchoo and Ayyangar, JJ.,
was delivered by Sarkar, J. Das Gupta, J., delivered a separate Judgment.
2006 of 1953.
C. Mathur and C. P. Lal, for the respondent.
On July 30, 1953, the Government of Uttar Pradesh, the respondent in this appeal, made an order under s. 99A of that Code forfeiting these books which were thereupon seized and taken away.
The appellant was the author of two books in Hindi called Sikh Mat Khandan Part 1 and Bhoomika Nazam Sikh Mat Khandan which he had published in April 1953.
