Supreme Court of India

Lal Suraj @ Suraj Singh & Anr. v. State of Jharkhand

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Reported as [2008] 17 S.C.R. 1059
Bench S.B. Sinha and Cyriac Joseph JJ.
Decided 18 December 2008

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the learned Sessions Judge as also the High Court committed a serious error in passing the impugned judgment.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s. 319 - ... I Summoning of other persons appearing to be guilty of offence under - Power of - Held: Is wide but is to be exercised very c sparingly - Before summoning an accused, trial court must ' form opinion on basis of evidences brought before it that case • has been made out that such person could be tried together with the other accused - Person not charge sheeted, may come within the purview of description of person as contained o, - in s.319- On facts, appellants were not charge sheeted and also not named in FIR - Deposition of prosecution witnesses

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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