Supreme Court of India
Dineshbhai Chandubhai Patel v. State of Gujarat & Ors.
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We are of the considered view that the complaint and FIR, do disclose a prima facie commission of various cognizable offences alleged by the complainants against the accused persons and, therefore, the High Court instead of dismissing the application filed by the accused persons in part should have dismissed the application as a whole to uphold the entire FIR in question.
Judgment, page 10
From the headnote
Code of Criminal Pr ocedure, 1973: s.482 – Scope of – Held: Inher ent powers of High Cour t, cannot be str etched to any extent – Such powers cannot be equated with the appellate powers of High Court. s.482 – Application under – Seeking quashing of FIR (which was registered pursuant to thr ee complaints) – High Cour t quashed the FIR to the extent of offences u/ss.406, 420 and 120B of IPC and u/ss.3, 7 and 1 1 of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled T ribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act – However , it did not quash the FIR in respect of the allegations of cr eating two bogus powers of attorneys,
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Where later benches applied it
- 2021 Kaptan Singh v. The State of Uttar Pradesh and Others
- 2023 Sri Gulam Mustafa v. The State of Karnataka & Anr.
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