Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 102 · Decided 2 February 2017
Amrutbhai Shambhubhai .PATEL v. Sumanbhai Kantibhai Patel & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 102 · [2017] 4 S.C.R. 105
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1171/2016
- Decided
- 2 February 2017
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, AMITAVA ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 173
Headnote
', .1 Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.ll3(Bj - P~wer,of Magistrate to direct ftlrther investigatiOn suo motu 01~ acting oi1 'I he request or prayer of the complainantlinforma11t '.after cognizance and person - Held: Neither the Magistrate suo motu nor 0J1 mi application filed by the 'coinJJlainarltl informant has power to direct ftirther i11vestigaiio11 · - Such a course i'vould be open only on the request of the inve~:tigating agency and that too; in circumstmices \'varranting
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