Supreme Court of India

Sasikala Pushpa and Others v. State of Tamil Nadu

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Reported as [2019] 7 S.C.R. 319
Bench R. Banumathi and S. Abdul Nazeer JJ.
Decided 7 May 2019

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What the Court ordered

In the result, all the appeals are disposed of as under:- SLP(Crl.) No.7252/2016:- The impugned order of the High Court issuing direction to lodge criminal complaint against the appellants is set aside and the appeal is allowed.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.340 – In a sexu al harassment case against the appellants, the appella nts filed anticipatory bail applications along with Vakalatna ma before the Madurai High Court – While filing the Vakalatnama, it w as stated therein that it was signed by appellants before the ir counsel on 17.08.2016 at Madurai – Challenging the maintainabi lity of bail petition and Vakalatnama, the respondent-State file d preliminary objection and submitted that the Vakalatnama bore signature dated 18.08.2016, however, the first appellant had left for Singapor e from New Delhi on

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