Supreme Court of India

Lajpat & Ors. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.

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Bench Abhay Manohar Sapre and Indu Malhotra JJ.
Decided 6 December 2018

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing discussion, the appeal succeeds and is accordingly allowed.

Judgment, page 4

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 482 – Application under, to quash charges under Penal Code – Dismissal of, by the Single Judge quoting principles of law laid down by this Court relating to powers of the High Court to interfere in cases filed u/s. 482 but without mentioning the facts of the case – On appeal held: Single Judge ought to have first set out the brief facts of the case with a view to understand the case and then examined the challenge made to the proceedings in the light of the principles of law laid down by this Court and then recorded his finding as to on what basis and…

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