Supreme Court of India

Sangeeta Agrawal & Ors. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.

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Reported as [2018] 14 S.C.R. 462
Bench Abhay Manohar Sapre and Indu Malhotra JJ.
Decided 3 December 2018

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing discussion, the appeal succeeds and is accordingly allowed.

Judgment, page 4

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 – Quashing of proceedings – Complaint filed under ss.498A, 304B I PC – Application for quashing the proceedings filed under s.482 dismi ssed by the High Court – On appeal, held: High Court did not ment ion the bare facts of the case with a view to appreciat e the factual controversy – High Court ought to have first set out the br ief facts of the case with a view to understand the factual matrix of t he case and then examined the challenge made to the proceedings and t hen recorded his finding as to on what basis and reason s, a case is made out for any

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