{"id":241173,"date":"1957-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1957-03-28T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/gujar-singh-mangal-singh-vs-the-state-on-29-march-1957"},"modified":"2015-01-13T06:57:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T01:27:02","slug":"gujar-singh-mangal-singh-vs-the-state-on-29-march-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/gujar-singh-mangal-singh-vs-the-state-on-29-march-1957","title":{"rendered":"Gujar Singh Mangal Singh vs The State on 29 March, 1957"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Gujar Singh Mangal Singh vs The State on 29 March, 1957<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: AIR 1958 P H 77, 1958 CriLJ 418<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Falshaw<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Falshaw<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>Falshaw, J. <\/p>\n<p>1. Gujar Singh   petitioner   was    convicted by a Magistrate at Tarn Taran under Section 9 of the Opium Act and sentenced to three months&#8217;<br \/>\nrigorous imprisonment, his appeal being  dismissed by the Sessions Judge at Amritsar.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The case against the petitioner was that he was found in possession of five seers of what are prescribed as opium extracted poppy heads at his house. He denied the alleged recovery, but this was held to be proved against him, and the argument put forward in revision is that under the law as it stands the possession of opium extracted poppy heads is not an offence. In the relevant rule framed under the Excise Act it appears that the only opium poppy heads which amount to opium within the definition &#8220;opium impregnated&#8221; poppy heads, and at the time when the present offence was committed the lawful possession of these poppy heads was limited to one seer.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. My attention has been drawn to the de<br \/>\ncision of Kapur and DuJat JJ. in The State v.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sohan Lal. AIR. 1956 Punj 159 (A), in which it<br \/>\nwas held that the possession of husk of poppy<br \/>\nheads called bhuki was no offence, although this<br \/>\ncase was decided on the basis that the possession<br \/>\nof poppy heads in excess of two seers was unlaw-\n<\/p>\n<p>ful. It seems that in fact the amendment of the<br \/>\nrule which was introduced in 1955 was not brought<br \/>\nto the notice of the learned Judges, but at the<br \/>\nsame time it is quite clear that if It had been,<br \/>\nthe case of the accused would have been even<br \/>\nstronger, and the learned Judges dissented from<br \/>\na decision of the Nagpur High Court in which<br \/>\nit was held that the shells of poppy heads possessed in some measure the active properties ofopium and could be used as an intoxicant and<br \/>\ntherefore came within the definition of &#8220;opium&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>The amendment of the rule by which only the<br \/>\npossession of opium impregnated poppy heads is<br \/>\nlimited makes it quite clear that the possession<br \/>\nof poppy heads from which the opium has already<br \/>\nbeen extracted cannot possibly be intended to be<br \/>\nunlawful. I accordingly accept the revision petition and set aside the conviction and the sentence of the petitioner whose bail bond will accordingly be cancelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Gujar Singh Mangal Singh vs The State on 29 March, 1957 Equivalent citations: AIR 1958 P H 77, 1958 CriLJ 418 Author: Falshaw Bench: Falshaw ORDER Falshaw, J. 1. Gujar Singh petitioner was convicted by a Magistrate at Tarn Taran under Section 9 of the Opium Act and sentenced to three months&#8217; [&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":[8,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-punjab-haryana-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gujar Singh Mangal Singh vs The State on 29 March, 1957 - 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\/gujar-singh-mangal-singh-vs-the-state-on-29-march-1957\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gujar Singh Mangal Singh vs The State on 29 March, 1957 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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