Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 554 · Decided 18 May 2023
Chanchalpati Das v. The State of West Bengal & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 554 · [2023] 6 S.C.R. 655
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1592/2023
- Decided
- 18 May 2023
- Bench
- AJAY RASTOGI, BELA M. TRIVEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 468, 471, 406, 120B; CrPC Section 309
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - FIR and charge-sheet - Quashing of - FIR was registered against appellant-accused u/ss. 468, 471, 406 and 120-B of IPC - Appellant-accused claim themselves to be spiritual leaders and are related to a religious/ spiritual society - had committed theft as well as criminal breach of trust in respect of a bus - Appellant-accused sought quashing of the criminal proceedings - High Court dismissed the criminal revisions - On appeal, held: As per the case of the complainant, the alleged incident of bus
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