Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 150 · Decided 11 March 2013
Gambhirsinh R. Dekare v. Falgunbhai Chimanbhai Patel and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 150 · [2013] 4 S.C.R. 719
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 433/2013
- Decided
- 11 March 2013
- Bench
- C.K. PRASAD, V. GOPALA GOWDA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 500, 501, 502, 506, 507, 114; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
A B Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.482 - Defamatory news item - In local edition of a newspaper - Complaint against C Editor and Resident Editor alleging defamation - Magistrate took cognizance of the offence and issued process against both the accused - Editor sought quashing of ground that he was not aware of offending news item as he was stationed at different place - High Court quashed D the complaint against the Editor - Held: High Court quashed the prosecution on erroneous assumption of fact - In view of the scheme of Press and Registration of Books Act and in view
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)