Supreme Court of India

The State of Telangana v. Habib Abdullah Jeelani & Ors.

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Reported as [2017] 1 S.C.R. 141

Bench Dipak Misra J.

Decided 6 January 2017

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid premises, we allow the appeal, set aside the impugned order of the High Court and direct that the investigation shall proceed in accordance with law.

Judgment, page 17

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure,· 197 3 - s. 482 - Inherent power of High Court - Interference in investigation - Scope of - High Court refused to quash the FIR and consequential investigation, but passed an order that if the accused person surrenders before the trial magistrate he shall be admitted to bail - Held: While declining to quash FIR and investigation, Court cannot extend the privilege to.accused person which is in nature of an anticipatory bail - High Court's direction amou/lfed to an order uls.438 CrPC, albeit ll'ithout satisfaction of the conditions of.the said provision - This is

Authorities it was built on

1976 Smt. Nagawwa v. Veeranna Shivalingappa Konjalgi & Ors. cited by 51
1980 Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia Etc. v. State of Punjab cited by 46
1988 Madhavrao Jiwaji Rao Scindia & Anr. Etc. v. Sambhajirao Chandrojirao Angre & Ors. Etc. cited by 41
2014 Km. Hema Mishra v. State of U.P. and Others cited by 7
2009 Lal Kamlendra Pratap Singh v. State of U.p.& Ors. cited by 6

Where later benches applied it

2025 Muskan v. Ishaan Khan (sataniya) and Others relied on
2023 Sri Gulam Mustafa v. The State of Karnataka & Anr. relied on
2021 Neeharika Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. v. State of Maharashtra and Others relied on
2021 Ravuri Krishna Murthy v. The State of Telangana and Others relied on
2024 Directorate of Enforcement v. Niraj Tyagi & Ors referred to
2020 Arnab Manoranjan Goswami v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. referred to

Of those, 4 relied on · 2 referred to

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