Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 231 · Decided 28 August 1987
A.K. Subbaiah & ORS. v. State of Karnataka & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 231 · [1987] 3 S.C.R. 1128
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 401/1987
- Decided
- 28 August 1987
- Bench
- SABYASACHI MUKHERJI, G.L. OZA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 500; CrPC Section 397, 401, 199(2), 401(2)
Headnote
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973: ss. 397 & 401-High Court­ Revisional jurisdiction-Scope of-Challenge to issue of process-High Court to see whether prima facie case made out-Persons not parties before trial court-Whether could be impleaded in revision. The trial court took cognizance of a by the State Government under s. 199(2) Cr. P.C., as one of the persollS defamed was the Director General of Police, and issued process ag~inst D the appellants. In the revision petition preferred by the appellants under ss. 397 and 401 Cr. P.C. against that order, in addition to respondent I,
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