Supreme Court of India

M/s. Swil Ltd. v. State of Delhi and Anr.

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Reported as [2001] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 527
Bench M.B. Shah and S.N. Phukan JJ.
Decided 14 August 2001

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid order, SLP (Crl.) Nos. 1564-I565 of2001 filed by A. Sasikanth seeking quashing of the impugned order passed by the High Court of Delhi in Criminal Misc. (Main) No.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 : Section 190-0./fence-Cognizance of-By Magistrate-Scope and ambit of-Summons issued against a person not mentioned or named as accused in charge-sheet-Correctness of-Held : Under S.190 Magistrate takes cognizance of an offence and not the offender-At the stage of issuing process it is for the Magistrate to decide whether or not to issue process against persons named or not named in the charge-sheet-Hencl!, summons rightly issued Section 319-Persons not named as accused-Power to proceed against-Scope and ambit of-Held: At the stage of issuance of process S.319

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 3 referred to

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