Advocates:
DEBA PRASAD MUKHERJEERATAN KUMAR CHOUDHURI

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REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL APPEAL NO(s). 439 OF 2006

RAM CHANDRA BHAGAT Appellant (s)

VERSUS

STATE OF JHARKHAND

Respondent(s)

O R D E R

Since there is a difference of opinion, let the papers

of this case be placed before Hon’ble the Chief Justice of

India for sending the matter before another Bench.

........................J.

[MARKANDEY KATJU]

NEW DELHI;

.........................J.

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

[GYAN SUDHA MISRA]

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REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL APPEAL NO(s). 439 OF 2006

RAM CHANDRA BHAGAT Appellant (s)

VERSUS

STATE OF JHARKHAND

Respondent(s)

O R D E R

Per Hon’ble Mr. Justice Markandey Katju

1.

Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2.

The separation of law from morality by the British

positivist jurists Bentham and Austin was a great advance in

legal history.

3.

The oft quoted story in this connection is of the

famous Lord Chancellor of England Sir Thomas More