Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 487 · Decided 26 October 1999
Balbir v. State of Haryana and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 487 · [1999] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 120
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 333/1987
- Decided
- 26 October 1999
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, AJAY PRAKASH MISRA, S.S.M. QUADRI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 223, 223(d)
Headnote
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 223 : C Joint trial-Two cases-One instituted on private complaint and the other on police report-Accused did not raise a contention before tria•I court that joint trial of both the cases be ordered-Effect-Held: Such a contention cannot be raised at any D instituted on private complaint and the other on police report-Two diametrically divergent versions without anything in common except that the murdered person was the same-Held: The two trials should be separately conducted one after the other by the same court before the same Judge­
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