Supreme Court of India

Saurav Das v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2023] 1 S.C.R. 731
Bench M. R. Shah and C. T. Ravikumar JJ.
Decided 20 January 2023

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above and for the reason stated above, t he petitioner is not entitled to the relief as prayed in the present petition namely directing all the States to put on their websites the copies of all the chargesheets/challans filed under Section 173 of the Cr.P.C. Present writ petition lacks merits and the same deser ves to be dismissed and is accordingly dismissed.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973:ss. 173, 207 – Report o f police officer on completion of investigation – Writ Petition u/Art. 32 seeking direction to all the States to upload all chargesheet s on public domain/websites – Held: Relief sought is contrary to scheme of CrPC – It would violate the rights of the accuse d as well as victim and/or even the investigating agency – Puttin g the FIR on the website cannot be equated with putting the chargesheets along with the relevant documents on the public domain and on the websites of the State Governments – Chargesheet are not public documents u/s.

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