Supreme Court of India

Mohan Raj v. Dimbeswari Saikia & Anr

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Reported as [2006] SUPP. 8 S.C.R. 873
Bench S.B. Sinha and Dal Veer Bhandari JJ.
Decided 10 November 2006

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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We hold that the certificate dated 20.11.85 in itself was not sufficient to bring a judicial proceeding to an end.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973-As amended by State of Assam b;y Code of Criminal Procedure (Assam Amendment) Act, 1983-Sections 197(5) and 197(6)-Alleged extremists killed -by police personnel on being· attacked-Criminal complaint against police personnel-On reference by Magistrate, State Government certifying in format prescribed under Sectiorz 197(6)(i) of Code, as amended, that police personnel were acting in discharge of their official duty-Jn Criminal Revision filed by complainant for grant df aforesaid certificate, High Court on production of certificate, disposing it of as infructuous

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 mentioned

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