Supreme Court of India

Rukmini Narvekar v. Vijaya Satardekar & Ors.

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Reported as [2008] 14 S.C.R. 271

Bench Markandey Kat Ju and Altamas Kabir JJ.

Decided 3 October 2008

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that there is no material whatsoever either mentioned in the FIR or produced by the prosecution to show that Vijaya Satardekar was in any way involved in the alleged criminal offence committed by her husband Ranjit Satardekar.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973- ss.227, 482 - Con- stitution of India, 1950 - ArticltJ 226 - Framing of charges - Evidence to be considered by the Court while framing of c charges and taking cognizance of offence - Per Katju, J: Held: Ordinarily defence material cannot be looked into by the Court while framing of the charge - However, in very rare and ex- ceptional cases when some defence material when shown to the trial court would convincingly demonstrate that prosecu- "' tion version was totally absurd or preposterous then the Court ..___,, can look into it - Per Kabir, J: There is no

Authorities it was built on

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2002 K.G. Premshanker v. Inspector of Police and Anr. cited by 16

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