Supreme Court of India

Budhan Choudhry and Others v. The State of Bihar

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Reported as [1955] 1 S.C.R. 1045

Decided 2 December 1954

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21 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

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1950 Chiranjit Lal Chowdhuri v. The Union of India and Others. cited by 50

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Of those, 3 relied on · 1 followed · 8 referred to · 9 mentioned

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