Supreme Court of India
Swapan Kumar Chatterjee v. Central Bureau of Investigation
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What the Court ordered
In the result, the appeal succeeds and it is accordingly allowed.
Judgment, page 5
From the headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 311 – Power under – Scope of – Held: The power should be exercised with great caution and circumspection and should be invoked by the court only to meet the ends of justice – In the facts of the present case, the application for summoning the witness, ought to have been rejected. Allowing the appeal, the Court HELD: 1. The power conferred under Section 311 Cr.P. . should be invoked by the court only to meet the ends of justice.…
Where later benches applied it
- 2023 Satbir Singh v. State of Haryana & Ors.
- 2022 Varsha Garg v. The State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors.
- 2025 Ashutosh Pathak v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. R1: State of Uttar Pradesh R2: Shikha Pathak
Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to · 1 mentioned
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