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Kailash Vijayvargiya v. Rajlakshmi Chaudhuri and Others

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Reported as [2023] 6 S.C.R. 135
Bench M. R. Shah and Sanjiv Khanna JJ.
Decided 4 May 2023

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 : s. 156(3) – Police officer’s power to investigate cogni zable case – Application u/s. 156(3) by the victim-complai nant alleging rape by the appellants; and sought direction to police to inves tigate the matter treating the complaint as an FIR – Prior to filing of the said application, the victim filed several complaints before the police authorities, who conducted an enquiry and found tha t there was delay of two years in filing the complaint and refused to register the same – Dismissal of the application u/s. 156(3) by the Mag istrate – Revision

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