Supreme Court of India

Sanjaysinh Ramrao Chavan v. Dattatray Gulabrao Phalke and Others

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Reported as [2015] 1 S.C.R. 130

Bench Kurian Joseph and Abhay Manohar Sapre JJ.

Decided 16 January 2015

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the order of the learned Special Judge, accepting report under Section 169 of the Cr.P.C. is set aside.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - ss.397 to 401 - Revisional jurisdiction - Scope of - Registration of criminal case under Prevention of Corruption Act - Closure report by police uls 173(2) Cr.P. . - Accepted by Magistrate - High Court in exercise of revisional jurisdiction set aside order of Magistrate and directed the Investigating Officer to make a - request for sanction for prosecution - On appeal, held: The court in exercise of revisional jurisdiction not to interfere, unless the decision which is sought to be revised is perverse, untenable in law, grossly erroneous, glaringly

Authorities it was built on

1976 Smt. Nagawwa v. Veeranna Shivalingappa Konjalgi & Ors. cited by 51
1997 M/s. Pepsi Foods Ltd. and Anr. v. Special Judicial Magistrate and Ors. cited by 28
1977 State of Karnataka v. L. Muniswamy & Ors. cited by 27
1997 Mansukhlal Vithaldas Chauhan v. State of Gujarat cited by 25
1991 State of Bihar Etc. Etc. v. P.P. Sharma, Ias and Anr. cited by 15
2008 S.K. Sinha, Chief Enforcement Officer v. Mis. Videocon International Ltd. & Ors. cited by 13
2012 Bhushan Kumar & Anr. v. State (nct of Delhi) & Anr. cited by 11

Where later benches applied it

2018 Kishan Rao v. Shankargouda referred to
2015 State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors. v. Anand Mohan &anr. mentioned

Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned

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