Supreme Court Upholds Conviction of Trader for Unlicensed Purchase of Pressed Cotton Bales under Bombay Agricultural Produce Market Rules, 1941 — Pressed Cotton Retains Identity as Agricultural Produce. Held that pressing cotton into bales does not alter its essential character as agricultural produce under Section 2 of the Act, and Rule 65 requiring a licence for purchases is validly made under Section 26.
15 Sep 1959The case involved a criminal appeal by special leave against a judgment of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, which had set aside an acquittal by...
