Supreme Court of India

Kolla Veera Raghav Rao v. Gorantala Venkateswara Rao and Anr.

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Reported as [2011] 2 S.C.R. 364
Bench Markandey Kat Ju and Gyan Sudha Misra JJ.
Decided 1 February 2011

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.300(1) - Scope of ·-Held: s.300(1) is wider than Article 20(2) of the Constitution - While, Article 20(2) only states that 'no one can be prosecuted and punished for the same offence more than once', s.300 (1) states that no one can be tried and convicted for the same offence or even for a different offence but on the same facts - In the instant case, accused was already o convicted uls. 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 - He · cannot be again tried or punished on the same facts under s.420 or any other provision of /PC or any other statute -

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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