Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 654 · Decided 21 October 2021
Kavitha Lankesh v. State of Karnataka & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 654 · [2021] 10 S.C.R. 309
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1236/2021
- Decided
- 21 October 2021
- Bench
- A.M. KHANWILKAR, DINESH MAHESHWARI, C.T. RAVIKUMAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
Karnataka Control of Organised Crimes Act, 2000: s.24 - Purport of - The purport of s.24 is that information regarding commission of an offence of organized crime under the 2000 Act can be recorded by a police officer only upon obtaining prior approval of the police officer not below Inspector General of Police - What is crucial in this provision is the factum of recording of offence of organized crime and not of recording of a crime against an offender as such - Thus, only after registration of FIR, investigation for the concerned offence would proceed in which
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