Supreme Court of India

Om Prakash & Ors. v. State of Jharkhand through the Secretary, Department of Home, Ranchl-i & Anr.

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Reported as [2012] 9 S.C.R. 125

Bench Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai JJ.

Decided 26 September 2012

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that this is not a case of false encounter.

Judgment, page 31

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: c ss. 482 and 197 - Complaint against police officials - Alleging killing in fake encounter - Case of the accused/police officials that encounter was genuine - FIR lodged by a citizen against the miscreants including the deceased for threatening him by firing at his house on the date of the encounter - One 0 of the accused/police officials also filing FIR giving account of the encounter - NHRC in the complainant's complaint, relying on CID inquiry, holding that encounter was genuine - Magistrate taking cognizance of the case against the accused and initiating

Authorities it was built on

1955 Matajog Dobey v. H. C. Bhari cited by 16
2006 Sankaran Moitra v. Sadhna Das and Anr. cited by 16
2004 M/s Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Ltd. and Ors. v. Md. Sharaful Haque and Ors. cited by 12
2004 State of Orissa through Kumar Raghvendra Singh and Ors. v. Ganesh Chandra Jew cited by 9
2000 Abdul Wahab Ansari v. State of Bihar and Anr. cited by 6
1973 Pukhraj v. State of Rajasthan & Anr. cited by 2
1959 K. Satw Ant Singh v. The State of Punjab cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2024 Gurmeet Kaur v. Devender Gupta & Another relied on
2020 D. Devaraja v. Owais Sabeer Hussain relied on
2016 Extra Judicial Execution Victim Families Association (eevfam) & Anr. v. Union of India & Anr. relied on
2016 Devinder Singh & Ors. v. State of Punjab through Cbi relied on

Of those, 4 relied on

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