Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 1007 · Decided 18 December 2024
P. Manikandan v. Central Bureau of Investigation and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 1007 · [2024] 12 S.C.R. 1553
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 5478/2024
- Decided
- 18 December 2024
- Bench
- C.T. RAVIKUMAR, SANJAY KAROL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 364A, 302; CrPC Section 386, 386(b), 173(8); Constitution Article 20(ii)
Headnote
Whether the High Court was justified in directing re-investigation and retrial of the same offence on the same set of facts, after acquitting the accused by giving him the benefit of doubt; Whether, in the attending fact and circumstances, the de novo of double jeopardy and the appellant's right u/Art.20(ii) of the Constitution of India. Constitution of India - Art.20(ii) - Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.386 - The Trial Court held appellant guilty for the offence punishable u/ss.364A
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