Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 986 · Decided 16 December 2024
Ankush Vipan Kapoor v. National Investigation Agency
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 986 · [2024] 12 S.C.R. 1743
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 2819/2024
- Decided
- 16 December 2024
- Bench
- B.V. NAGARATHNA, N KOTISWAR SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- NDPS Act Section 17, 18; UAPA Section 17, 18
Headnote
Whether the NIA can investigate only the same accused who is present in the NIA investigation qua Scheduled Offences and for non-scheduled offence by virtue of Section 8 of the National Investigation Agency, 2008; In other words, can the accused person who, although not being investigated for any Scheduled Offences could be investigated by NIA because there exists a link between the two namely, Scheduled and non-scheduled offences, thereby connecting every co-accused; Whether, the expression "the accused" in Section
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