Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 293 · Decided 12 July 2001
John Thomas v. DR. K. Jagadeesan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 293 · [2001] 3 S.C.R. 934
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 688/2001
- Decided
- 12 July 2001
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, R.P. SETHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 500; CrPC Section 199, 199(1)
Headnote
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973: :.._ S.199-Defamation-Locus Standi to file complaint- "Some persons c aggrieved"-Scope of-Imputations published in a newspaper against a hospital that it was engaged in trading human kidneys-Complaint by Director of the hospital-Held, maintainable, as he but if he has reason to feel hurt by the same, he D has locus standi to file. a complaint. Section 258-Power of Court to stop proceedings-Applicability of- Held, has no application to cases instituted upon complaints. i Penal Code, 1860-Section 500-Defamation-Jmputations not per se E
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