Supreme Court of India

Santosh S/o Dwarkadas Fafat v. The State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2017] 10 S.C.R. 129
Bench Kurian Joseph and R. Banumathi JJ.
Decided 10 October 2017

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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the liberty as above should be left to the D jurisdictional Sessions Court, i.e., Sessions Court, Gondia.

Judgment, page 4

From the headnote

Bail: Anticipatory bail - Entitlement - Allegation against appellant that he received misappropriated food grains meant for public distribution - Appellant seeking anticipatory bail - Rejection by the courts below - Before this Court, Investigating Officer of the opinion that custody of the appellant ivas required for recording his confessional statement in terms of what co-accused had already stated; and that he was not co-operating because he kept 011 reiterating that he had not purchased the food-grains - Held: Purpose of custodial interrogation is not just for the purpose of confession -

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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