Supreme Court of India

Madhu Limaye v. The State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [1978] 1 S.C.R. 749

Bench P. K. Goswami, N. L. Untwalia and D. A. Desai JJ.

Decided 31 October 1977

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons stated above, we allow this appeal, set aside the F judgment and order of the High Court and remit the case back to it to dispose of the appellant's petition on merits, in the manner it may think fit and proper to do in accordance with the law and in the light of this judgment.

Judgment, page 12

Authorities it was built on

1969 Baldevdas Shivlal & Anr. v. Filmistan Distributors (india) (p) Ltd. & Ors. cited by 11

Where later benches applied it

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2019 Hooghly Mills Company Ltd. v. The State of West Bengal and Anr. relied on
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2011 Tgn Kumar v. State of Kerala and Ors. relied on
2018 P. Sreekumar v. State of Kerala & Ors. referred to
2016 Prabhu Chawla v. State of Rajasthan & Anr. referred to
2013 Urmila Devi v. Yudhvir Singh referred to
2013 Mohit Alias Sonu and Another v. State of U.P. and Another referred to
2013 Jitendra Raghuvanshi & Ors. v. Babita Raghuvanshi & Anr. referred to
2012 Gian Singh v. State of Punjab & Another referred to

Of those, 5 relied on · 6 referred to

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