Supreme Court of India

Judgebir Singh @ Jasbir Singh Samra @ Jasbir & Ors. v. National Investigation Agency

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Reported as [2023] 6 S.C.R. 1
Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud and J. B. Pardiw Ala JJ.
Decided 1 May 2023

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid discussion, both the appeals fail and are hereby dismissed.

Judgment, page 55

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: ss. 167(2), 173 – Default Bail – Entitlement to, u/s. 167(2) – Though the chargesheet might have been filed within th e statutory time period as prescribed in law yet the chargesheet was without a valid order of sanction passed by a competent authority – Held : It cannot be said that a chargesheet filed without san ction is an incomplete chargesheet which could be termed as not in conso nance with s. 173 – According sanction is the duty of the sanctioning authority who is not connected with the investigati on at all – In case the sanctioning authority takes

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Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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