{"id":165494,"date":"1967-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1967-12-05T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/in-re-annamalai-vs-unknown-on-6-december-1967"},"modified":"2015-06-10T03:35:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T22:05:20","slug":"in-re-annamalai-vs-unknown-on-6-december-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/in-re-annamalai-vs-unknown-on-6-december-1967","title":{"rendered":"In Re: Annamalai vs Unknown on 6 December, 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">In Re: Annamalai vs Unknown on 6 December, 1967<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1969) 1 MLJ 387<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: A Alagiriswami<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>A. Alagiriswami, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. The petitioner has been convicted by the Special First Class Magistrate, Shevapet, under Section 75 of the Madras City Police Act, for having been guilty of indecent behaviour in a public place, that is a tea-shop and sentenced to pay a. fine of Rs. 10. The only point argued is that a tea-shop cannot be said to be a public place. &#8216; Public place &#8216; is defined in Section 3 of the Act as meaning a place including a road, street or way, whether a throughfare or not, and a landing place to which the public are granted access or have a right to resort or over which they have a right to pass. In Mangubhai v. Emperor A.I.R. 1930 Bom. 369, a hotel has been held to be a place-to which the public are permitted to have access. In the Crown Prosecutor v. Moonooswamy (1910) I.L.R. 33 Mad. 83, an arrack-shop has been held to be a public place within the meaning of Section 75. In Natarajan v. State (1963) M.W.N. (Crl.) 172, a barber&#8217;s saloon has been held to be a public place, as defined in Section 3 of the City Police Act. There is no doubt that a tea shop is a place to which the public can have access and they have a right to resort to a tea-shop and the keeper of the tea-shop cannot exclude any person who comes-to his hotel to be served refreshments. It is, therefore, quite clear that the tea-shop in this case would be a public place and consequently it should be held that the petitioner has been rightly convicted for having behaved indecently in a public place.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The Criminal Revision Case is, therefore, dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court In Re: Annamalai vs Unknown on 6 December, 1967 Equivalent citations: (1969) 1 MLJ 387 Author: A Alagiriswami JUDGMENT A. Alagiriswami, J. 1. 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