UNION OF INDIA Vs. A B SHAH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Aggrieved by the judgment in Criminal Appeal No. 24/81 dated 26-8-1988 on the file of Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench), this appeal is filed by special leave.

(2.) The appellant preferred a complaint under Section 73 of the Mines Act, 1952 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") read with Regulation No. 100(1) of the Coal Mines Regulations 1957 (hereinafter referred to as "the Regulation"). The facts leading to the filing of this Appeal may be stated in brief to appreciate the contentions raised before us. The facts are as under:

(3.) The learned trial Judge accepted both the contentions of respondent Nos. 1 to 4 and consequently acquitted them. On appeal preferred by the appellant, the High Court also confirmed the acquittal accepting the same contentions. Hence the present appeal.