Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 494 · Decided 4 May 2023
Kailash Vijayvargiya v. Rajlakshmi Chaudhuri and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 494 · [2023] 6 S.C.R. 135
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1581/2021
- Decided
- 4 May 2023
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, SANJIV KHANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 156(3)
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 : s. 156(3) - Police officer's power to investigate cognizable case - Application u/s. 156(3) by the victim-complainant alleging rape by the appellants; and sought direction to police to investigate the matter treating the complaint as an FIR filed several complaints before the police authorities, who conducted an enquiry and found that there was delay of two years in filing the complaint and refused to register the same - Dismissal of the application u/s. 156(3) by the Magistrate - Revision application thereagainst,
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