1940 (6) TMI 18

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....hree cases. The accused were convicted under Section 152 of the Bombay Municipal Boroughs Act, 1925, their offences consisting of having allowed hand-driven lorries containing fruit to remain for more than half an hour on a public street in Ahmedabad. The learned Sessions Judge was of opinion that the offences did not fall within Section 152. That Section provides that"(1) Whoever in any area afte....

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....de that proposition. He says that the act of the accused amounted to setting up a stall. No doubt you may have a stall on wheels, but I am clearly of opinion that introducing into' a street a lorry on wheels with goods for sale upon it does not amount to setting up a stall within Section 152 (1) (a). In my opinion that Sub-section deals with making some form of addition or annexe, more or less....