Supreme Court of India

Balbir v. State of Haryana and Anr.

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Reported as [1999] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 120
Bench K.T. Thomas, A.P. Mishra and Syed Shah Mohammed Quadri JJ.
Decided 26 October 1999

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons we decline to confinn the conviction passed on the appellant.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 223 : Joint trial-Two cases-One instituted on private complaint and the other on police report-Accused did not raise a contention before tria•I court that joint trial of both the cases be ordered-Effect-Held: Such a contention cannot be raised at any later stage-Criminal Trial. Joint trial-Decision on-Duty of court-Procedure-Two cases-One instituted on private complaint and the other on police report-Two diametrically divergent versions without anything in common except that the murdered person was the same-Held: The two trials should be separately

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