Supreme Court of India

State of A.P. v. A.S. Peter

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Reported as [2007] 13 S.C.R. 517
Bench S.B. Sinha and Lokeshwar Singh Pant A JJ.
Decided 13 December 2007

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What the Court ordered

Resultantly, the notification issued withdrawing the consent to enable the State Police to further investigate into the case is patently invalid and unsustainable in law.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: ss. 36 and 482-Further investigation-Challenged for not obtaining prior permission of Magistrate-HELD: Law does not c mandate taking of prior permission from Magistrate for further investigation-Carrying out further investigation even after filing of charge-sheet is a statutory right of police-Investigation by CID cannot be said to be as taken up by a different agency-CID is a part of investigating agency of the State-Order of High Court quashing the criminal proceedings set aside-Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973-s.482. first information report was lodged

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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