Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1439 · Decided 16 December 2008
B. Jagdish & ANR. v. State of AP. & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1439 · [2008] 17 S.C.R. 606
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2049/2008
- Decided
- 16 December 2008
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, CYRIAC JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 482, 200
Headnote
CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973: s.482 - Application by a doctor for quashing a criminal c complaint of medical negligence - Doctor claiming himself to be a child specialist, treating a child for Tuberculosis - Later, the child diagnosed in the advance stage of Leukemia - Death of child - High - HELD: It cannot be said that materials brought on record by t- D complainant, even if given face value, do not disclose an offence - No interference with order of High Court called for. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS: ~ Medical profession - HELD: A doctor should not profess himself to be a child
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