Supreme Court of India

Rajiv Thapar & Ors. v. Madan Lal Kapoor

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Reported as [2013] 3 S.C.R. 52

Bench D.K. Jain and Jagdish Singh Khehar JJ.

Decided 23 January 2013

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, the High Court accepted the Criminal Revision Petition filed by Madan Lal Kapoor (the respondent-complainant).

Judgment, page 28

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.482 - Quashing of proceedings -Scope - Death of married woman - Complaint by deceased's father -Magistrate summoned the accused-husband and in-laws and committed the case to the Court of Sessions - Sessions Judge discharged the accused appellants - High Court quashed the discharge order - Justification - Held: On facts, not justified - Post-mortem o report, the Central Forensic Science Laboratory's report, as a/so the inquest report, sufficient to exculpate the appellants from the a/legations levelled in the complaint - Merely because the body of the

Authorities it was built on

1990 State of Haryana and Ors v. Ch. Bhajan Lal and Ors. cited by 115
1961 Abhiraj Kuer v. Debendra Singh cited by 52
2004 State of Orissa v. Devendra Nath Padhi cited by 14
2004 State of Andhra Pradesh v. Goloconda Linga Swamy and Anr. cited by 11
2008 Rukmini Narvekar v. Vijaya Satardekar & Ors. cited by 5
1996 Sh. Satish Mehra v. Delhi Administration and Anr. cited by 2
1970 Nagarmal Tekriwal v. State of Bihar cited by 1

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