Supreme Court of India
Ms. P Xxx v. State of Uttarakhand & Anr
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What the Court ordered
We hold that in view of Sections 178 and 179 of the Code, the offence in this case was a continuing one having been committed in more local areas and one of the local areas b eing Gaya, the learned Magistrate at Gaya has jurisdiction to proceed with the criminal case instituted therein.
Judgment, page 24
From the headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – ss.177-180, 184, 218, 220 – Penal Code, 1860 – ss.376, 504, 506 – Allegatio ns against respondent No.2-accused consisting of offences of d istinct nature, one set of allegations is of the offence of rape at elhi (s.376, IPC) and the other set of allegations is of hurling abuses and e xtending threat on phone calls received by the appellant at her village in District Chamoli (ss.504, 506 IPC), if could be said to be ‘one series of acts so connected together as to form the same tran saction’ for the purpose of trial together in terms of s.220, CrP – Held: On
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