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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