Supreme Court of India

State of Orissa v. Dhaniram Luhar

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Reported as [2004] 2 S.C.R. 68

Bench Doraiswamy Raju and Arijit Pasayat JJ.

Decided 4 February 2004

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid legal position, the impugned judgment of the High Court is unsustainable and is set aside.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973-Section 378(3)-Leave to appeal Against order of acquittal-Refusal of without giving any reason-Acquittal was granted despite admission of offence by accused-Held: If the trial Court was ai lapse in appraising entire evidence, leave to appeal ought to have been granted and entire evidence should have been re-appreciated-High Court should have given reasons for refusa/-Orissa Forest Act, 1972-Section 27(l)(a)-Principles of Natural Justice. Respondent-accused was prosecuted for offences punishable u/s 27(l)(a) ofOrissa Forest Act, 1972 for having encroached land

Where later benches applied it

2019 State of Orissa & Ors. v. Chandra Nandi relied on
2019 Commissioner of Income Tax-i v. M/s Rashtradoot (huf) relied on
2015 Khumbaram v. State of Rajasthan & Ors. relied on
2013 State of Madhya Pradesh v. Giriraj Dubey relied on
2012 Kumari Shaima Jafari v. Irphan @ Gulfam and Ors. relied on
2012 Union of India v. Ibrahim Uddin & Anr. relied on
2011 Chandna Impex Pvt. Limited v. Commissioner of Customs, New Delhi relied on
2021 Brijesh Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Others referred to

Of those, 7 relied on · 1 referred to

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