Supreme Court of India

Shiv Kumar v. Hukam Chand and Anr.

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Bench S.P. Kurdukar, K.T. Thomas and N. Santosh Hegde JJ.

Decided 30 August 1999

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From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973-Sections 225, 301 and 302- Prosecution by private pleaders-Whether permissible-Appellant applied for permission to his Advocate to conduct prosecution of the case-Consent of Public Prosecutor obtained-Held, private pleaders cannot conduct prosecution except before a Magistrate even with the consent of the Public Prosecutor. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973-Sections 24 and 225-Public Prosecutor-Role of The Appellant married his sister to son of respondent no. 1.

Where later benches applied it

2019 Amir Hamza Shaikh & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Anr. relied on
2016 Dhariwal Industries Ltd. v. Kishore Wadhwani & Ors. relied on
2015 K. Anbazhagan v. State of Karnataka& Ors. relied on
2025 Sovaran Singh Prajapati v. The State of Uttar Pradesh referred to
2022 Manoj & Ors v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2014 Sundeep Kumar Bafna v. State of Maharashtra & Anr. referred to
2022 Varsha Garg v. The State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors. distinguished
2013 Sister Mina Lalita Baruwa v. State of Orissa and Others distinguished

Of those, 3 relied on · 2 distinguished · 3 referred to

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