HARNAM DAS Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The only question that was argued in this appeal is substantially one of construction of S.99-D of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

(2.) The appellant was the author of two books in Hindi called Sikh Mat Khandan Part 1 and Bhoomika Nazam Sikh Mat Khandan which he has published in April 1953. On July 30, 1953, the Government of Uttar Pradesh, the respondent in this appeal, made an order under S. 99-A of that Code forfeiting these books which were thereupon seized and taken away. That order, so far as material, was in the following terms:

(3.) Section 99-A under which the order was made, so far as relevant, is in these terms: