Legal Street registered trademark

Supreme Court of India

Princl. Chief Conservator of Forest & Anr. v. J.K. Johnson & Ors.

Neutral citation
Reported as [2011] 12 S.C.R. 1144
Bench R.M. Lodha and Jagdish Singh Khehar JJ.
Decided 17 October 2011

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

What the Court ordered

In view of the above, the order passed by the Conservator of Forests, Nizamabad for forfeiture of the vehicle and two rifles to the state government is de hors the provisions of the 1972 Act and unsustainable.

Judgment, page 29

From the headnote

WILD LIFE (PROTECTION) ACT, 1972: c Object of its enactment - Discussed. s.54(1) - Power of specified officer to order forfeiture of seized items - Held: specified officer empowered u/s.54(1) of the Act as amended by the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act, 2002 (Act 16 of 2003) to compound offences, has no power, competence or authority to order forfeiture of the seized items on composition of the offence by a person who is suspected to have committed offence against the Act - Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act, 2002 (Act 16 of 2003). s.39(1)(d) - Applicability of- Held: Is applicable if

Authorities it was built on

Sign in free to read it

  • The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
  • The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
  • Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
  • Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
  • Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing
Sign in to read - for free

An email address, no password.