Supreme Court of India

Sahil Abdulsattar Mansuri v. Safimahamad Fafirbhai Mansuri

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Reported as [2026] 7 S.C.R. 67
Bench Sanjay Karol and Augustine George Masih JJ.
Decided 4 June 2026

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that incidents such as this, wherein case records are lost during an active investigation, have to be taken with utmost seriousness.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Matter pertains to inordinate delay of nearly two decades in the investigation of the criminal complaint. Headnotes† Constitution of India – Arts.136, 226, 14 – Inordinate delay in the investigation of the criminal complaint – Complaint by the father of the appellants-original complainant, in the year 2007, before the Judicial Magistrate against respondents 1 to 4 u/ss.120B, 406, 420, 463, 468, 471, and 114 IPC alleging that while he was away on Haj pilgrimage, the accused persons forged his signatures and prepared bogus partition deed and fake sale deed, mutated their

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