Supreme Court of India

Ankush Vipan Kapoor v. National Investigation Agency

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Reported as [2024] 12 S.C.R. 1743
Bench B.V. Nagarathna and Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh JJ.
Decided 16 December 2024

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid discussion, we find that the NIA was justified in seeking cancellation of bail granted to the petitioner herein by the High Court in respect of the offences alleged against him under the provisions of the NIA Act in the State of Punjab.

Judgment, page 47

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Whether the NIA can investigate only the same accused who is present in the NIA investigation qua Scheduled Offences and for non-scheduled offence by virtue of Section 8 of the National Investigation Agency, 2008; In other words, can the NIA investigate any other accused person who, although not being investigated for any Scheduled Offences could be investigated by NIA because there exists a link between the two namely, Scheduled and non-scheduled offences, thereby connecting every co-accused; Whether, the expression “the accused” in Section 8 of the NIA Act has to

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