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Double Jeopardy
Scope
The bar on a second prosecution and punishment for the same offence: the narrow constitutional rule and the wider statutory one.
Authorities to start from
- India Const. art. 20(2)
- Maqbool Hussain v. State of Bombay, AIR 1953 SC 325
- Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, § 300
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