Supreme Court of India

S.W. Palanitkar and Ors. v. State of Bihar and Anr.

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Bench D.P. Mohapatra and Shivaraj V. Patil JJ.

Decided 18 October 2001

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: . . . Ss. 200 to 203 and 482. Summons issued on a Criminal complaint-Petitionfiletl for quashing of Criminal proceeding-Dismissetl by High Court-On appeal, held, be.fore issuing a process, Magistrate has to consider the provisions of Sel'tions 200 to 203 of the Act and the position of law and to pass on order judiciously and not mechanically or in a routine manner-When the acts alleged against did not constitute qffence satisfying 'ingredients, even prima.facie, summons should not have been issu·ed. ·Inherent power qf High Court-Section 482-While exercising…

Authorities it was built on

1976 Smt. Nagawwa v. Veeranna Shivalingappa Konjalgi & Ors. cited by 52
1956 Jaswantrai Manilal Akhaney v. The State of Bombay. cited by 17

Where later benches applied it

2024 Delhi Race Club (1940) Ltd. & Ors. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. relied on
2021 Jaswant Singh v. State of Punjab & Anr. relied on
2015 International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (arci) &ors. v. Nimra Cerglass Technics (p) Ltd.&anr. relied on
2012 State of Orissa & Ors. v. Ujjal Kumar Burdhan relied on
2019 Dr. Lakshman v. The State of Karnataka & Ors. referred to
2019 Chilakamarthi Venkateswarlu & Anr.v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Anr. v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Anr. referred to
2013 Arun Bhandari v. State of U.P. and Others referred to
2024 V.D. Raveesha v. The State of Karnataka mentioned
2023 Sri Gulam Mustafa v. The State of Karnataka & Anr. mentioned
2017 Samir Sa.hay @ Sameer Sahay v. State of U.P. and Another mentioned

Of those, 4 relied on · 3 referred to · 3 mentioned

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