Supreme Court of India

Lok Ram v. Nihal Singh and Anr

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Reported as [2006] 3 S.C.R. 1018
Bench Arijit Pasa Yat and S.H. Kapadia JJ.
Decided 10 April 2006

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973-Section 319-Power to summon' person as accused, against whom action had not been taken earlier-Scope of-Held: Power to summon such person is an extra-ordinary power-It is to be used very sparingly only if compelling reasons exist-There would be presumption that such person had been an accused person when court took cogni=ance of the offence-On facts, application to summon such person cannot be rejected on the ground that complainant was an interested witness-Thus, High Court rightly directed trial court to proceed against such person by summoning him. The

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