{"id":195567,"date":"1910-01-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1910-01-18T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/emperor-vs-balvantrao-anantrao-on-19-january-1910"},"modified":"2018-03-31T22:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T17:25:15","slug":"emperor-vs-balvantrao-anantrao-on-19-january-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/emperor-vs-balvantrao-anantrao-on-19-january-1910","title":{"rendered":"Emperor vs Balvantrao Anantrao on 19 January, 1910"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Bombay High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Emperor vs Balvantrao Anantrao on 19 January, 1910<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1910) 12 BOMLR 124<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Batchelor, Knight<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1. We think that we ought not to interfere with this acquittal, and that the Magistrate was right in declining to convict the accused under Section 43 (b) of the Bombay Abkari Act V of 1878. The fact was that the accused&#8217;s possession of this cocaine was altogether illegal, and, in these circumstances, it seems to us that Section 43 (6) does not apply. That section seems to contemplate rather the case of a person who is in lawful possession of cocaine at one place, but is by law forbidden to remove it either partly or wholly to another place. Here the offence consisted not in moving the cocaine from one place to another, but in the unauthorised possession of it at any place in contravention of the Act. The appeal, therefore, must be dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bombay High Court Emperor vs Balvantrao Anantrao on 19 January, 1910 Equivalent citations: (1910) 12 BOMLR 124 Bench: Batchelor, Knight JUDGMENT 1. We think that we ought not to interfere with this acquittal, and that the Magistrate was right in declining to convict the accused under Section 43 (b) of the Bombay Abkari Act V [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bombay-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Emperor vs Balvantrao Anantrao on 19 January, 1910 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/emperor-vs-balvantrao-anantrao-on-19-january-1910\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Emperor vs Balvantrao Anantrao on 19 January, 1910 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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