Supreme Court of India

Dipakbhai Jagdishchandra Patel v. State of Gujarat and Another

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Reported as [2019] 6 S.C.R. 701

Bench Ashok Bhushan and K. M. Joseph JJ.

Decided 24 April 2019

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What the Court ordered

Accordingly, we allow the appeal and the petition filed under Section 482 of the Cr.PC. The Order impugned passed by the Sessions Judge framing the charge against the appellant will stand set aside and the appellant will stand discharged.

Judgment, page 32

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 – Petition file d by appellant challenging the complaint and the order p assed by Sessions Court rejecting his prayer to discharge hi m of offence under ss.489B and 489C IPC – Prosecution case was that accus ed no.1 to 3 were selling fake foreign currency note a s original at public place – When they were caught, they stated that they collected notes from the residence of accused no.4-appellant – Appellant contended before Sessions judge that apart from the s tatements of co-accused, there was no material to proceed against him and that only on the

Authorities it was built on

1978 Union of India v. Prafulla Kumar Samal & Anr. cited by 21
1977 State of Bihar v. Ramesh Singh cited by 11
1978 Nandini Satpathy v. Dani (p.l.) and Anr. cited by 11
1998 Suresh Budharmal Kalani v. State of Maharashtra cited by 8
1960 Mohamed Dastagir v. The State of Madras cited by 4
1972 Mahabir Mandal and Others v. State of Bihar cited by 4
2001 Umashankar v. State of Chhattisgarh cited by 2
1976 Veera Ibrahim v. State of Maharashtra cited by 1
1999 Sikander @mohd. Safiq v. The State (delhi Admn.) cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2022 Kanchan Kumar v. The State of Bihar relied on
2022 Ghulam Hassan Beigh v. Mohammad Maqbool Magrey & Ors. relied on
2025 P Krishna Mohan Reddy v. The State of Andhra Pradesh referred to
2025 K.P. Tamilmaran v. The State by Deputy Superintendent of Police referred to
2023 Vishnu Kumar Shukla & Anr v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr referred to
2022 Vijay Madanlal Choudhary & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 4 referred to

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