Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 606 · Decided 13 December 2012
Anju Chaudhary v. State of U.P. & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 606 · [2012] 13 S.C.R. 901
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2039/2012
- Decided
- 13 December 2012
- Bench
- SWATANTER KUMAR, MADAN B. LOKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 154, 156, 190
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: A B s. 154 - FIR - Whether it is permissible to register two c different FIRs in law - Held: There cannot be two FIRs registered for the same offence - However, where the incident is separate; offences are similar or different, or even where the subsequent crime not fall within the ambit and scope of the FIR recorded first, then 0 a second FIR could be registered - It has to be examined on the merits of each case whether a subsequently registered FIR is a second FIR about the same incident or offence or is based upon distinct and different facts and
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