Supreme Court of India
Central Bank of India v. Ram Narain
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that the decision of the High Court that Ram Narain could not be tried in any Court in India for offences committed in Mailsi in November, 1947, is right and that the Provincial Government had no power under section 188, Criminal Procedure Code, to accord sanction to his prosecution.
Judgment, page 11
From the headnote
Offence committed by a person in Pakistan-Migration to India and acquiring domicil therein-Courts in lndia-/urisdiction Trial-Indian Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860) s. 4-Criminal Procedure Code (Act V of 1898), s. 188-Whether apply under the circumstances-Domicil, definition of. person accused of an offence under the Indian Penal Code and committed in a district which after the partition of India became part of Pakistan cannot be tried for that offence by a Criminal Court in India after his migration to India and acquiring thereafter the status of a citizen of India. The fact that after the
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