Supreme Court of India

Balchand Jain v. State of Madhya Pradesh

Neutral citation
Reported as [1977] 2 S.C.R. 52
Bench P. N. Bhagwati, A. C. Gupta and S. M. Fazal Ali JJ.
Decided 5 November 1976

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the conditions required by r. 184 of the Rules must be impliedly imported in s. 438 of the Code so as to form the main guidelines which have to be followed while the Court exercises its power under s. 438 of the Code in offences contemplated by r. 184 of the Rules.

Judgment, page 15

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to

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