KISHORE CHOUHAN Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PETITIONERS by invoking inherent jurisdiction of this Court under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, have prayed for quashing the order dated 5.7.1997 including the entire criminal proceeding pursuant to the aforesaid order passed by the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dhanbad in C.E. Case No. 506 of 1996, whereby the learned court below has taken cognizance for the offence under Section 47(a) of the Excise Act against the petitioners.

(2.) THE ground advanced in support of the prayer for quashing the impugned order of cognizance is that it is bad in law as because it was taken beyond the period of limitation.

(3.) HEARD learned Counsel for the State.