Supreme Court of India

Swapan Kumar Chatterjee v. Central Bureau of Investigation

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Reported as [2019] 3 S.C.R. 713
Bench A. K. Sikri and S. Abdul Nazeer JJ.
Decided 4 January 2019

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the appeal succeeds and it is accordingly allowed.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 311 – Power under – Scope of – Held: The power sho uld be exercised with great caution and circumspection and should be invoked by the court only to meet the ends of justice – I n the facts of the present case, the application for summoning the wit ness, ought to have been rejected. Allowing the appeal, the Court HELD: 1. The power conferred under Section 311 Cr.P. . should be invoked by the court only to meet the ends o f justice. The power is to be exercised only for strong and valid reasons and it should be exercised with great caution and circum

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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