Supreme Court of India

Kavitha Lankesh v. State of Karnataka & Ors.

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Reported as [2021] 10 S.C.R. 309
Bench A. M. Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and C. T. Ravikumar JJ.
Decided 21 October 2021

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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

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Karnataka Control of Organised Crimes Act, 2000: s. 24 – Purport of – The purport of s.24 is that informatio n regarding commission of an offence of organized crime under the 2000 Act can be recorded by a police officer only upon obtai ning prior approval of the police officer not below the rank o f the Deputy Inspector General of Police – What is crucial in th is provision is the factum of recording of offence of organized cri me and not of recording of a crime against an offender as such – Thus, only after registration of FIR, investigation for the concerned o ffence would proceed in which

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 mentioned

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