Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 426 · Decided 26 September 2012
Om Prakash & ORS. v. State of Jharkhand Through the Secretary, Department of Home, Ranchl-I & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 426 · [2012] 9 S.C.R. 125
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1491/2012
- Decided
- 26 September 2012
- Bench
- AFTAB ALAM, RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 197(3), 482, 197
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: A B c ss. 482 and 197 - Complaint against police officials - Alleging killing in fake encounter - Case of the accused/police officials that encounter was genuine - FIR lodged by a citizen against the for threatening him by firing at his house on the date of the encounter - One 0 of the accused/police officials also filing FIR giving account of the encounter - NHRC in the complainant's complaint, relying on CID inquiry, holding that encounter was genuine - Magistrate taking cognizance of
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