Supreme Court of India
Lalta and Ors. v. State of Uttar Pradesh
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What the Court ordered
We hold that this appeal must be allowed, F the judgment of the Allahabad High Court dated June 3, 1966 must be set aside and the convictions .of each of the appellants and the sentence imposed upon them should be quashed.
Judgment, page 7
From the headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure (5 of 1898), s. 403-Rule of issue estoppel-Applicahility. The first appellant filed a suit on a promissory note. Prior to the institution of the suit, the executant of the promissory note had filed a complaint against the appellants alleging that they had forcibly taken his thumb impressions on a number of blank forms of promissory notes. The Magistrate ·acquitted the appellants. Thereafter. the suit on the promis·sory note was dismissed on the ground that the promissory note was a forgery because, the stamps affixed were of a date later than that of the,
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