Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 66 · Decided 12 February 2000
Michal Machado and ANR. v. Central Bureau of Investigation and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 66 · [2000] 1 S.C.R. 981
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 184/2000
- Decided
- 12 February 2000
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, AJAY PRAKASH MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 120, 219; CrPC Section 319
Headnote
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973--Section 319-Power to proceed against a person appearing to be guilty of offence during trial of such offence against other named accused-Essential conditions for exercise of such power-Held, court must have reasonable satisfaction from the evidence al­ ready that other person could as well be tried along with the already a"aigned accused-Mere suspicion of involvement of such other persons in A B c the offence not enough-There is a discretion vested in the court but such power should be exercised only to achieve criminal justice-None of the 49 D
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