Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 278 · Decided 27 February 2025
Kanishk Sinha & Another v. The State of West Bengal & Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 278 · [2025] 2 S.C.R. 1405
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 966/2025
- Decided
- 27 February 2025
- Bench
- SUDHANSHU DHULIA, AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 120B, 420, 467, 468, 469, 471; CrPC Section 156(3); Information Technology Act Section 66A(a)(b)(c)
Headnote
Whether the High Court was justified in holding that the direction issued in Priyanka Srivastava v. State of Uttar Pradesh [2015] 4 SCR 108 that a complaint will be accompanied by an affidavit is prospective in nature not having any will not be applicable to the complaint lodged against the appellants in the year 2010-2011. Judgments - Operation of - Plea of the appellants that the second FIR was registered on the complaint which was filed before the Magistrate u/s.156(3), CrPC, however, it
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