Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1132 · Decided 14 September 2009
D. Venkatasubramaniam and ORS. v. M.K. Mohan Krishnamachari and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1132 · [2009] 14 S.C.R. 441
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1766/2009
- Decided
- 14 September 2009
- Bench
- R.V. RAVEENDRAN, B. SUDERSHAN REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 406, 420; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 - Power of High Court under s.482 to interfere with c the investigation - Scope of - Held: It is statutory obligation and duty of police to investigate into crime and courts normally ought not to investigating agency to investigate in a particular manner - Inherent power of court cannot to be permitted to degenerate into a weapon of D harassment or persecution - On facts, High Court, without recording any reason directed police that it was obligatory on their part to record statements from
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)