Supreme Court · 1966 INSC 211 · Decided 10 October 1966
Ashwin Nanubhai Vyas v. State of Maharashtra & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1966 INSC 211 · [1967] 1 S.C.R. 807
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 268/1964
- Decided
- 10 October 1966
- Bench
- M. HIDAYATULLAH, RAGHUBAR DAYAL, S.M. SIKRI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 417, 493, 496; CrPC Section 198
Headnote
NANUBHAI VYAS v. STAIB OF MAHARASHTRA & ANR. October 10, 1966 B [M. HIDAYATULLAH, S. M. S!KRI AND RAGHUBAR DAYAL, JJ.j c D E Cod• of Criminal Proc1dure (5 of 1898), ss. 198 and 495-Illquiry llllder Chapter XVIII requiring complaint by pttrson aggreived-Death of complainant after filing died after the complaint had been filed under s. 198 Cr. P.C. The application for substi­ tution of the complainant was resisted by the accused-appellant, on the ground that only the aggreived person could be the complainant and on the complainant's death, the complaint must be treated as
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