Supreme Court of India
Kanishk Sinha & Another v. The State of West Bengal & Another
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that the High Court was right in holding that the direction that a complaint will be accompanied by an affidavit, will be prospective in nature.
Judgment, page 5
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Issue for Consideration Whether the High Court was justified in holding that the direction issued in Priyanka Srivastava v. State of Uttar Pradesh [2015] 4 SCR 108 that a complaint will be accompanied by an affidavit is prospective in nature not having any retrospective application and thus, will not be applicable to the complaint lodged against the appellants in the year 2010-2011. Headnotes† Judgments – Operation of – Plea of the appellants that the second FIR was registered on the complaint which was filed before the Magistrate u/s.156(3), CrPC, however, it was not accompanied by an
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