Supreme Court of India

The State of Bombay v. S. L. Apte & Another

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Reported as [1961] 3 S.C.R. 107
Bench Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha J.
Decided 9 December 1960

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Double Jeopardy-Rule-" Same offence" -Test-Constitution of India, Art. zo(z)-General Clauses Act, I897 (Io of I897), s. a6 -Indian Penal Code, I86o (XLV of I86o), s. 409-Insurance Act, I9J8 (IV of I938), s. w5. By Art. 20(2) of the Constitution "No person shall be prose­ cuted and punished for the same offence more than once." Section 26 of the General Clauses Act, 1897, provides,­ "Where an act or omission constitutes an offence under two or more enactments, then the offender shall be liable to be pro­ secuted and punished under either or any of those enactments, but shall not be liable to

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