Supreme Court of India

Ghanshyam Upadhyay v. State of U.P. & Ors.

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Reported as [2020] 6 S.C.R. 983
Bench S. A. Bobde, A. S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian JJ.
Decided 19 August 2020

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the instant petition/application is without any merit and the same is accordingly dismissed.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Inquiry: Commission of Inquiry – Constitution of – By Supreme Co urt – To investigate the alleged encounter of ‘Vikas Dubey’ – Application by the petitioner seeking scrapping of the Commissi on alleging ‘conflict of interest’ and ‘bias’ against the two of the me mbers of the Commission – Held: The basis for allegation was newspape r report – The newspaper report without further proof has no evidentiary value – The present case is a fact-finding exercise – T he Commission has been constituted under Commissions of Inquiry Act , which is empowered merely to investigate, record its findings and

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 mentioned

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