Supreme Court · 1986 INSC 278 · Decided 20 December 1986
MOHD. Mumtaz v. Nandini Satpathy and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1986 INSC 278 · [1987] 1 S.C.R. 691
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 49/1983
- Decided
- 20 December 1986
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, E.S. VENKATARAMIAH, V. KHALID, G.L. OZA, S. NATARAJAN (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 321, 329, 239, 494
Headnote
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973: ss.321 & 329-Nolle prosequi- Withdrawal from pro5ccution-Right of public prosecutor-Charge framed against accused-Withdrawal whether legal. - c ·...C Section 321 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 empowers a Public Prosecutor incharge of a case to withdraw with person in respect of any one or more of the offences for which he is tried, at any time before the judgment is pronounced.· D Respondent No. 1 Ex-Chief Minister of Orlssa, was alleged to have misappropriated a huge sum, said to have been collected by District Congress Committees from
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