Supreme Court of India

Nahar Singh v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.

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Bench Vineet Saran and Aniruddha Bose JJ.
Decided 16 March 2022

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: ss.164, 190(1)(b), 209, 319 – Power of Magistrate taking cognizance of an offence on the basis of a police report in terms of s.190 (1)(b) CrPC to issue summons to any person not arraigned as an accused in the police report and whose name also not featuring in column (2) of such report – Held: If there are materials before the Magistrate showing complicity of persons other than those arraigned as accused or named in column 2 of the police report in commission of an offence, the Magistrate at that stage can summon such persons as well, upon taking cognizance…

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