https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=178906 A lawful acquittal by a court of competent jurisdiction, if not set aside in appeal, continues to operate as a bar to a subsequent trial for the same offence under section 403 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The majority treated an earlier High Court order, even if erroneous, as only an intermediate step in the same proceedings and held that it did not extinguish the appellant's statutory protection or the finality attaching to the acquittal. The second prosecution was therefore not maintainable and the proceedings for the same offence were quashed. en-us Tue, 27 Oct 1959 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:26:36 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=178906 A lawful acquittal by a court of competent jurisdiction, if not set aside in appeal, continues to operate as a bar to a subsequent trial for the same offence under section 403 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The majority treated an earlier High Court order, even if erroneous, as only an intermediate step in the same proceedings and held that it did not extinguish the appellant's statutory protection or the finality attaching to the acquittal. The second prosecution was therefore not maintainable and the proceedings for the same offence were quashed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 27 Oct 1959 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=178906