Supreme Court of India

Gobind Singh v. Shanti Sarup

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Reported as [1979] 1 S.C.R. 806
Bench Y.V. Chandrachud J.
Decided 15 September 1978

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that in a matter uf this nature where what is involved is not merely the right of a private individual but the health, safety and convenience of the public at large, the safer course would be to accept the view of the learned Magistrate, who saw for himself the hazard resulting from the working of the bakery.

Judgment, page 4

From the headnote

The Judgment of the Court was delivered by CHANDRACHUD, . J.-The respondent who is partner of the Punjab Oil Mills, Khanna, filed in the Court of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Samrala, an application under section 133 of the Code of Crimhlal Procedure, 1898, complaining that the appellant, who had been carrying on the occupation of a baker in the premises let out to him by the Mills, had constructed an oven and a chimney which consti­ tuted a nuisance under Section 133 of the Code. By an order dated December 16, 1969, the learned Sub-Divisional Magistrate served a conditional order on the

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