Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 1055 · Decided 7 August 2024
Basamsetti Rama Devi v. The State of A.P. & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 1055 · [2024] 8 S.C.R. 1687
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1358/2024
- Decided
- 7 August 2024
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, PRASANNA BHALACHANDRA VARALE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201, 149, 120B; CrPC Section 482; Constitution
Headnote
In cases relating to quashing of criminal complaint against the accused police officers-respondents in matters of custodial death, whether the High Court was justified in setting aside the committal order and discharging the accused-respondents in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.482 - Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302, 201, 149, 120B r/w s.34 - Matters of custodial death - High Court solely relying on the reports of the investigating agencies (CID and CBI) held that the occurrence took place in the exercise
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