EMPEROR Vs. ABDUL LATIF

JUDGEMENT

(1.) WE have before us three revisional applications, each being in respect of the conviction of the accused for carrying a knife in a public place contrary to a notification made by the Commissioner of Police under Sub-section 23 (2) of the Bombay City Police Act, 1902, which has been extended from time to time, the relevant extension being by order dated September 30, 1946.

(2.) IN Revision Application No.582, the accused Abdul Latif, who is employed in the weaving department of the Swadeshi Mills, was found in possession of a knife, which it is alleged he uses in the course of his employment, about 40 yards, from the gates of the Mill at 3-30 in the afternoon of October: 9.He was brought before Mr. Muranjan, Presidency Magistrate, 10th Court, Andheri, and sentenced to four months' rigorous imprisonment.

(3.) SUB-section 23 (2) of the Bombay City Police Act, 1902, as amended by the City of Bombay Police (Amendment) Act, 1942, provides: The Commissioner of Police may also, whenever and for such time as he shall consider necessary for the preservation of the public peace or public safety by a notification publicly promulgated or addressed to individuals, prohibit (a) the carrying in any public place of: (i) swords, spears, bludgeons, guns, knives, sticks, or lathis, or (ii) any other weapon which is capable of being used as a weapon of offence. (b) the carrying, collection and preparation of stones or other missiles or instruments or means of casting or impelling missiles. "