Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 5 · Decided 5 January 2018
Dineshbhai Chandubhai Patel v. State of Gujarat & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 5 · [2018] 1 S.C.R. 62
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 12/2018
- Decided
- 5 January 2018
- Bench
- R.K. AGRAWAL, ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 406, 420, 120B; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 - Scope of - Held: Inherent powers of High Court, cannot be stretched to any extent - Such powers cannot be equated with the appellate powers of High Court. s.482 - Application under - Seeking quashing of FIR (which to three complaints) - High Court quashed the FIR to the extent of offences u/ss.406, 420 and 120B of IPC and u/ss.3, 7 and 11 of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act - However, it did not quash the FIR in respect of the allegations of creating two
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