A.D.KOSHAL, S.MURTAZA FAZAL ALI
Mohan Lal – Appellant
Versus
State Of Maharashtra – Respondent
Judgment
FAZAL ALI, J.:- In this appeal by special leave, the appellant has been convicted under S. 411 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to six months R. I. and fine of Rs. 1,000. The only ground on which special leave appears to have been granted, in this case was that there was absolutely no evidence to show that the appellant had the knowledge or reason to believe that the bags recovered from his godown were stolen property. The facts of the case have been fully detailed in the judgment of the Sessions Judge as the High Court summarily dismissed the appeal, Mr. V. S. Desai, senior counsel, appearing in support of the appeal submitted that there was no evidence to show that the empty bags recovered from the shop of the appeallant were the very bags that has been brought from the godown of the Engineering College from where they were stolen. Dr. Chitale for the State, however, submitted that though the bags had no special mark of identification but prosecution proved by direct evidence of the cartman and the driver of the truck that the bags were brought from the godown of the Engineering College to the shop of the appellant. But that, however, does not solve the problem beca
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