Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 706 · Decided 29 September 2015
Essar Teleholdings LTD. v. Central Bureau of Investigation
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 706 · [2015] 11 S.C.R. 340
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1273/2015
- Decided
- 29 September 2015
- Bench
- H.L. DATTU, A.K. SIKRI, R.F. NARIMAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 220, 223; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 4(3)
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: ss.220 and 223- C Joint trial- If by administrative order, High Court gives power to Special Court to decide all offences pertaining to 2G scam ·then even a Pen_al Code offence by itself i.e. such offence which is not to be tried with Prevention so long they pertain to the 2G scam would be within D the Special Judge's jurisdiction - Decision to order joint trial is discretionary - In the instant case, Special Judge was justified in exercising his discretion to order a joint trial on the ground that clubbing of the two cases would
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