Supreme Court of India

Alagarsamy and Ors. v. State Represented by Dy. Superintendent of Police

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Reported as [2009] 15 S.C.R. 385
Bench V.S. Sirpurkar and Deepak Verma JJ.
Decided 22 October 2009

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Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 rlw s.149/s.34 - Election dispute - Inter-community clash - Armed assault - 40 c accused - Six deceased - Conviction of accused-appellants by Courts below - Challenged, on grounds that the prosecution case was suspicious, particularly in view of non- production of FIR book - Held: Non-availability of FIR Book, -- \ by itself, cannot persuade the Court to throw the entire prosecution case - On facts, the Investigating Officer acted diligently and quickly and, therefore, confusion regarding the FIR was not such a discrepancy, which would taint the FIR with illegality -

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