Supreme Court of India

Nahar Singh v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.

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Reported as [2022] 2 S.C.R. 795
Bench Vineet Saran and Aniruddha Bose JJ.
Decided 16 March 2022

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: ss.164, 190(1)(b) , 209, 319 – Power of Magistrate taking cognizance of an offence o n the basis of a police report in terms of s.190 (1)(b) rPC to issue summons to any person not arraigned as an accused in t he police report and whose name also not featuring in column (2) of such report – Held: If there are materials before the Magistr ate showing complicity of persons other than those arraigned as accused or named in column 2 of the police report in commission of an of fence, the Magistrate at that stage can summon such persons as we ll, upon taking

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