Supreme Court of India

Mahesh Chand v. B. Janardhan and Anr.

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Reported as [2002] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 566

Bench M.B. Shah, D.M. Dharmadhikari and S.B. Sinha JJ.

Decided 4 December 2002

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the High Court was not correct in holding that the second complaint was completely barred.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973-Sections 200, 203 and 204- Second complaint on same facts-Cognizance of-Held: There is no statutory bar in filing second complaint-It can be entertained only in exceptional circumstances-However, it could be dismissed if decision against complainant in previous matter has been given upon a full consideration of the matter. Appellant-complainant lodged FIR against respondent Police authorities carried out investigation. However, not being satisfied, appellant filed criminal complaint against respondent Investigating Officer concluded that the dispute between

Authorities it was built on

1954 Ratilal Panachand Gandhi v. The State of Bombay and Others cited by 32
1961 Pramatha Nath Taluqdar v. Saroj Ranjan Sarkar cited by 10

Where later benches applied it

2014 Rakesh &anr v. State of U.P. &anr. relied on
2013 Udai Shankar Awasthi v. State of U.P. Anr. relied on
2011 Shiv Shankar Singh v. State of Bihar & Anr. relied on
2024 Subrata Choudhury @ Santosh Choudhury & Ors. v. The State of Assam & Anr. referred to
2019 Vishnu Kumar Tiwari v. State of Uttar Pradesh through Secretary Home, Civil Secretariat Lucknow and Another referred to
2013 Ravinder Singh v. Sukhbir Singh & Ors. referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 3 referred to

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