Supreme Court of India

Mookkiah v. State, Rep. by the Inspector of Police, Tamil Nadu

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Reported as [2013] 2 S.C.R. 881

Bench P. Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi JJ.

Decided 4 January 2013

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What the Court ordered

We hold that absolutely, there is no delay at all in either registering the FIR or dispatching the same to the F Magistrate Court. ·.

Judgment, page 17

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302134 - Prosecution under - Acquittal by trial court - Conviction by High Court - Held: The evidence of the eye-witnesses and medical evidence support the prosecution case - There was no delay in lodging FIR or dispatching the same to Magistrate Court - FSL report not doubtful - High Court rightly reversed the order of acquittal and convicted the accused. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s. 378 - Appeal against acquittal - Interference with - Power of High Court - Scope of - Held: High Court, as an appellate court, even while dealing with an appeal against acquittal,

Authorities it was built on

2007 Chandrappa and Ors. v. State of Karnataka cited by 45
2007 Rakesh Kumar Jain and Anr. v. Stateof U.P. Thr. Collector and Anr. cited by 24
2011 State of M.P. v. Ramesh and Anr. cited by 12
2011 Mrinal Das & Ors. v. The State of Tripura cited by 10
2004 State of Rajasthan v. Sohan Lal and Ors. cited by 7
2011 State of Rajasthan v. Talevar & Anr. cited by 6
2012 Rohtash v. State of Haryana cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2021 Jayamma & Anr v. State of Karnataka referred to
2019 Raju Ambadas Gangekar v. The State of Maharashtra referred to

Of those, 2 referred to

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