Supreme Court of India

Kailash Vijayvargiya v. Rajlakshmi Chaudhuri and Others

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Bench M. R. Shah and Sanjiv Khanna JJ.
Decided 4 May 2023

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 : s. 156(3) – Police officer’s power to investigate cognizable case – Application u/s. 156(3) by the victim-complainant alleging rape by the appellants; and sought direction to police to investigate the matter treating the complaint as an FIR – Prior to filing of the said application, the victim filed several complaints before the police authorities, who conducted an enquiry and found that there was delay of two years in filing the complaint and refused to register the same – Dismissal of the application u/s. 156(3) by the Magistrate – Revision application…

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Of those, 1 relied on · 1 mentioned

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