Supreme Court of India

Jasbir Singh v. Vipin Kumar Jaggi and Ors.

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Bench G.B. Pattanaik and Ruma Pal JJ.
Decided 16 August 2001

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that no principle of interpretation requires a statutory provision to be broken down to the words which constitute C it and then after defining each word individually weld them together to arrive at the meaning of a phrase.

Judgment, page 15

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Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985-Section 64- lmmunity from prosecution-Power-Exercise of-Whether permissible after rejection of application u/s. 307 Cr.P. .-Held, permissible, the power can be exercised at any time during the course of trial but before the judgment is delivered-Criminal Procedure Code, 1973-Sections 307 and 311. Criminal Procedure Code, 197 3-Sections 321 and 307-Distinction between.…

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