Supreme Court of India

Manendra Prasad Tiwari v. Amit Kumar Tiwari & Anr.

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Reported as [2022] 13 S.C.R. 174
Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and J. B. Pardiwala JJ.
Decided 12 August 2022

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, this appeal succeeds and is hereby allowed.

Judgment, page 22

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 – s.376 – Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) – ss. 5 and 6 – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – ss. 397, 482 – Discharge of Accus ed – ‘X’, delivered a baby and thereafter committed suicide by hanging h erself – FIR was registered for the offence punishable u/s 376 of IP and the provision of the POCSO Act against the respondent – The s pecial Judge framed charges for the abovementioned offences agai nst the respondent – The accused questioned the legality and validity of the order of framing charge by filing the Criminal Rev ision on the ground that

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