Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 724 · Decided 12 April 2023
Ashok Gulabrao Bondre v. Vilas Madhukarrao Deshmukh and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 724 · [2023] 3 S.C.R. 820
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1931/2011
- Decided
- 12 April 2023
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34; CrPC Section 195, 340, 482; Constitution
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.195 - Documents allegedly fabricated and forged prior to filing in evidence, embargo u/s.195 if applicable - On appeal, held: s.195(1)(b)(ii) would be attracted only when the offence enumerated in the said provision was of a document after it has been produced or filed in evidence during proceedings before any Court, i.e. during the time when the document is custodia legis - In such a case, the Court will be entitled to take cognizance of the offence only on the basis of the complaint made by the
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