Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 636 · Decided 5 November 2020
Hitesh Verma v. The State of Uttarakhand & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 636 · [2020] 9 S.C.R. 593
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 707/2020
- Decided
- 5 November 2020
- Bench
- L. NAGESWARA RAO, AJAY RASTOGI, HEMANT GUPTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 452, 504, 506; CrPC Section 482; SC/ST Act Section 3(1)(x)
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 482 - Petition under - For quashing charges u/ss. 452, 504 and 506 IPC and u/ss. 3(1)(x) (Substituted as 3(1)(r) by Act No. 1 of 2016) and 3(1)(e) of Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 - Dismissed by Court - Held: Offences under the Act not established - Hence the charges under the Act, quashed - Charges under IPC to be tried by competent Court. s. 482 - Quashing of charge-sheet in part - Held: There is no prohibition under the law for quashing the
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