https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=285400 Liability for a penal offence is fixed by the law in force when the act is committed, so supersession of the earlier Newspaper Control Order did not extinguish offences already completed. In the absence of a contrary intention in the later order, prosecutions for breaches of the 1942 Order could continue and the convictions were maintained. The sentence for the page-limit violation was then reduced because the breach was technical, the appellant had supplied additional pages to subscribers, the error stemmed from a mistaken view of the weekly count, and the complaint was brought long after the acts in question. The fine was reduced to Re. 1 on each count. en-us Wed, 22 Aug 1945 00:00:00 +0630 Mon, 19 Jul 2021 14:25:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=285400 Liability for a penal offence is fixed by the law in force when the act is committed, so supersession of the earlier Newspaper Control Order did not extinguish offences already completed. In the absence of a contrary intention in the later order, prosecutions for breaches of the 1942 Order could continue and the convictions were maintained. The sentence for the page-limit violation was then reduced because the breach was technical, the appellant had supplied additional pages to subscribers, the error stemmed from a mistaken view of the weekly count, and the complaint was brought long after the acts in question. The fine was reduced to Re. 1 on each count. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 22 Aug 1945 00:00:00 +0630 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=285400