Supreme Court of India

Achpal @ Ramswaroop & Another v. State of Rajasthan

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Reported as [2018] 12 S.C.R. 327

Bench Abhay Manohar Sapre and Uday Umesh Lalit JJ.

Decided 24 September 2018

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.167(2) – Investigation not complete within the period prescribed under – R ight of an accused in custody, to be released on bail – FIR register ed against appellants-accused– Appellants arrested and remande d to police/ magisterial custody – Petition filed by the complainant pray ing for fair and impartial investigation– High Court passed order dtd. 03.07.18 inter alia directing that investigation be conducted by a gazetted police officer, not below the rank of Addi tional Superintendent of Police (ASP)– On 05.07.18 charge- sheet filed by the police

Authorities it was built on

1994 Hitendra Vishnu Thakur and Ors. v. State of Maharashtra and Ors. cited by 40
1994 Sanjay Dutt v. The State through C.B.I. Bombay cited by 24
2001 Uday Mohanlal Acharya v. State of Maharasiitra cited by 16
1996 Dr. Bipin Shantilal Panchal v. State of Gujarat cited by 9
2014 Union of India through Cbi v. Nirala Yadav @ Raja Ram Yadav @ Deepak Yadav cited by 8
2007 State of West Bengal v. Dinesh Dalmia cited by 2
2018 Rambeer Shokeen v. State of Nct of Delhi cited by 2
2009 Sanjay Kumar Kedia @ Sanjay Kedia v. Intelligence Officer, Narcotic Control Bureau and Anr. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2020 S. Kasi v. State through the Inspector of Police Samaynallur Police Station Madurai District relied on
2023 Judgebir Singh @ Jasbir Singh Samra @ Jasbir & Ors. v. National Investigation Agency referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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