Supreme Court of India
Chandra Babu @ Moses v. State through Inspector of Police & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
In view of the aforesaid analysis and conclusion, the order passed by the High Court is set aside except where C it has held that the learned Magistrate could not have allowed another agency to investigate.
Judgment, page 19
From the headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 19 73: s. 173(8) - Power c of Magistrate to forward the complaint for further investigation - Magistrate had held that the Inspector, Crime branch had conducted investigation in a biased manner and the final report of the Inspector was not acceptable and directed the Additional Director General of Police to confer the power to Inspector, CBCID to investigate the case - High Court held that there were material discrepancies in the evidence brought on record and, therefore, set aside the order of Magistrate - On appeal, held: High Court fell into error in its
Authorities it was built on
- 1958 Mohd. Hanif Quareshi & Others v. The State of Bihar
- 2012 Vinay Tyagi v. Irshad Ali @ Deepak & Ors.
- 2012 Amit Kapoor v. Ramesh Chander & Anr.
- 1985 Bhagwant Singh v. Commissioner of Police and Anr.
- 2001 Hemant Dhasmana v. Central Bureau of Investigation and Anr.
- 1993 Kishun Singh and Ors. v. State of Bihar
- 2004 Hasanbhai Valibhai Quereshi v. State of Gujarat and Ors.
- 2013 Moti Lal Songara v. Prem Prakash @ Pappu and Anr.
- 2010 Uma Shankar Singh v. State of Bihar and Anr.
Where later benches applied it
- 2016 Anita Kushwaha v. Pushap Sudan
- 2017 Amrutbhai Shambhubhai.patel v. Sumanbhai Kantibhai Patel & Ors.
Of those, 1 relied on · 1 distinguished
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