Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 650 · Decided 20 October 2021
Jaswant Singh v. State of Punjab & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 650 · [2021] 6 S.C.R. 1100
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1233/2021
- Decided
- 20 October 2021
- Bench
- DINESH MAHESHWARI, VIKRAM NATH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 406, 420; CrPC Section 482, 173(2)
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.482 - High Court declined to exercise its powers u/s.482 CrPC to quash criminal proceedings arising out of FIR u/ss.406 and 420 of IPC - Propriety - Held: The power u/s.482 CrPC is to be exercised to prevent the abuse of process of any secure the ends of justice - Inherent powers should be exercised in a given and deserving case where the Court is satisfied that exercise of such power would either prevent abuse of such power or such exercise would result in securing the ends of justice - It is clear from the facts
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