Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 118 · Decided 29 January 2025
Ajay Malik v. State of Uttarakhand & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 118 · [2025] 1 S.C.R. 1725
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 441/2025
- Decided
- 29 January 2025
- Bench
- SURYA KANT, UJJAL BHUYAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 343, 370, 120B; CrPC Section 482, 164, 320
Headnote
(1) Whether the High Court acted well within the contours of its powers under Section 482 of the CrPC in rejecting Ajay Malik's quashing petition; (2) Whether the High Court fell in error in rejecting the Compounding Application moved by Ajay Malik and supported by Court was legally correct in accepting Ashok Kumar's Criminal Revision, thereby discharging him from the captioned criminal proceedings; (4) Whether the existing legal framework in India sufficiently protects the rights of domestic workers. Penal Code, 1860 -
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