Supreme Court of India

Adri Dharan Das v. State of West Bengal

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Reported as [2005] 2 S.C.R. 188

Decided 21 February 2005

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 : Sections 438-Protection under-Scope of--:Complaint under S.406, 467, 468, 471 and 420 /PC-Prayer by accused for protection in terms of S.438- 0n facts, .held: the prayer was rightly rejected by High Court. Section 438-Application ·under-Held: Legality of proposed arrest cannot be gone into in such an application-Interim order restraining arrest, if passed while dealing with an application under S.438, will amount to interference in the investigation, which cannot be done under S.438. Sections 438 antf. 439-.,.-Disiinction between---:Disc:_usse~ Complaint was

Authorities it was built on

1980 Niranjan Singh & Anr. v. Prabhakar Rajaram Kharote & Ors. cited by 25
1995 Salauddin Abdulsamad Shaikh v. The State of Maharashtra cited by 14

Where later benches applied it

2025 Radhika Agarwal v. Union of India and Others relied on
2019 P. Chidambaram v. Directorate of Enforcement relied on
2014 Sundeep Kumar Bafna v. State of Maharashtra & Anr. relied on
2009 Hdfc Bank Ltd. v. J.J. Mannan @ J.M. John Paul & Anr. relied on
2020 Dr Naresh Kumar Mangla v. Smt. Anita Agarwal & Ors. Etc. referred to
2018 Sushila Aggarwal & Ors. v. State (nct of Delhi) & Anr. referred to
2018 Dr. Subhash Kashinath Mahajan v. The State of Maharashtra and Anr. referred to
2013 Ranjit Singh v. State of M.P. and Others referred to
2012 Rashmi Rekha Thatoi & Anr. v. State of Orissa & Ors. referred to

Of those, 4 relied on · 5 referred to

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