Supreme Court of India

Central Bureau of Investigation v. R.S. Pai and Anr.

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Reported as [2002] 2 S.C.R. 889

Bench M.B. Shah, Brijesh Kumar and D.M. Dharmadhikari JJ.

Decided 3 April 2002

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the appeal is allowed and the impugned judgment and order passed by the Special Court is set aside.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: Section 173-Scope and interpretation of-Criminal trial-Charge sheet-Submission of-Subsequent thereto production of additional documents gathered during investigation-Held, permissible in such a case no prejudice is caused to accused-Word 'shall' in Section 173 (5) held not mandatory. In a criminal trial, CBI filed charge sheet against the accused persons. Subsequent thereto, CBI filed an application seeking permission to produce additional documents which were gathered during investigation but were not produced before the Court The Special Court rejected the

Where later benches applied it

2026 Shaurya Sunil Kumar Singh v. Central Bureau of Investigation relied on
2024 Sharif Ahmed and Another v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Another referred to
2023 Judgebir Singh @ Jasbir Singh Samra @ Jasbir & Ors. v. National Investigation Agency referred to
2020 Arjun Panditrao Khotkar v. Kailash Kushanrao Gorantyal and Ors. referred to
2019 State Represented by Inspector of Police Central Bureau of Investigation v. M. Subrahmanyam referred to

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