Supreme Court of India

State of Bihar & Anr. v. Lalu Singh

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Reported as [2013] 10 S.C.R. 552
Bench Chandramauli Kr. Prasad and Jagdish Singh Khehar JJ.
Decided 29 October 2013

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we allow this appeal, set aside the impugned observations, but without any order as to the costs.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s. 173 - State of Bihar - Criminal Investigation Department (CID) - Whether Inspector of .l. . can be treated in law as officer-in-charge of the police station for purpose of submitting the report contemplated uls. 173(2) - Held: r.431 (b) envisages that an Inspector of .l. . can exercise the power of an officer-in- charge of a police station - Once it is held that the Inspector of .l. . can exercise the power of an officer-in-charge of a police station, its' natural corollary is that the Inspector of .l. . is competent to submit the report as contemplated

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