Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 205 · Decided 18 February 2022
Luckose Zachariah @ Zak Nedumchira Luke and Others v. Joseph Joseph and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 205 · [2022] 2 S.C.R. 917
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 256/2022
- Decided
- 18 February 2022
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, SURYA KANT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34; CrPC Section 173(2), 173(8), 173(3), 173(6), 482
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: ss.173(2), 173(8), 173(3), 173(6) - Initial Report and Supplementary Report - Duty of Magistrate - As per the law laid down in Vinay Tyagi v Irshad Ali whenever a supplementary police report is filed after the original police has to consider both the reports conjointly and should not place reliance only upon the supplementary police report - Both the reports have to be assessed conjointly so as to find out whether there existed grounds to presume that the accused has committed the offence. Disposing of the
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