1937 (8) TMI 15

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....he will at the end of the day have to rue his success is another matter. He was charged with an offence under Section 46, Clause (a), Bengal Excise Act, for being in possession of illicit liquor. The maximum punishment provided for an offence under this section is imprisonment for a term of six months or, and a fine of Rs. 1000. Obviously, an offence under this section should be triable as a summo....

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....rd to Section 46, Excise Act, the trial could be properly held as a summons case, still by reason of Section 62 of the Act the procedure of a warrant case is rendered imperative. Section 62 says: If any person, after having previously been convicted of an offence punishable under Section 46, among other sections, subsequently commits and is convicted of an offence punishable under any of ....

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.... summons case, and that it was only upon conviction in such a trial that the warrant case procedure might be followed in dealing with the question of sentence. In other words, the question of an enhanced sentence under Section 62 might form the subject matter of a separate trial to which the provisions of Ch. 21 of the Criminal P.C. might be made applicable. This is the view which has in fact foun....

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....nsider the nature of the offence, but only the measure of the punishment which may be inflicted. That constitutes the deciding factor. 3. Where therefore as in the present case it was apparent from the beginning that the accused was liable to imprisonment exceeding six months by reason of a previous conviction under the provisions of Section 62, Bengal Excise Act, I think the proper procedure f....