Supreme Court of India

Abhinandan Jha & Ors. v. Dinesh Mishra

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Reported as [1967] 3 S.C.R. 668

Bench M. Hidayatullah and C. A. Vaidialingam JJ.

Decided 17 April 1967

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From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure (Act S of 1898), ss. 169, 170, 173 and ·190(1)-Report ·tc police of cognir.able offence-Report by police to magistrate after investigation that offence not made out-If magistrate can direct police ro file charge-sheet. On the question whether a magistrate could direct the police to sub· mil a charg~heet1 when the police, after investigation into a cognizable offence, had sublllltted a report of the action taken under s. 169, Cr. P. ., that there was no case made out for sending up the accused for trial, HELD : There was no such power conferred on a magistrate either

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