Supreme Court of India

The Seksaria Cotton Mills Ltd. v. The State of Bombay

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Reported as [1953] 1 S.C.R. 825
Bench Mehr Chand Mahajan, Vrvian Bose and Jagannadha Das JJ.
Decided 30 March 1953

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From the headnote

Essential Supplies Act (XXIV of 1946), ss. 7, 9--Notification requiring manufacturers to submit tru,e and accurate information-­ "Delivery", meaning of-Possession of del credere (JJJent-Whether possession uf seller-Delivery to such (JJJent, effect of-Penal statutes -Liberal constrnction. Government Notification issued under the Essential Sup­ plies Act, 1946, required every manufacturer to submit "true and accurate information relating to his undertakings'' and a note on the printed form stated that "by 'delivered' or 'delivery' is meant physical deli very of cloth in bales and pieces but not

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned

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