Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 350 · Decided 16 March 2025
Pradeep Nirankarnath Sharma v. State of Gujarat & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 350 · [2025] 4 S.C.R. 32
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1313/2025
- Decided
- 16 March 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, PRASANNA BHALACHANDRA VARALE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 154, 482
Headnote
Does the decision in Lalita Kumari v. Government of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. [2013] 14 SCR 713 create an absolute rule that a preliminary inquiry must be conducted in every case before the registration of an FIR. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - reliance on Lalita Kumari v. Government of Uttar Pradesh & Ors., to argue that the registration of an FIR should be preceded by a preliminary inquiry in cases involving allegations of abuse of official position - Correctness: Held: The scope of a preliminary inquiry, as clarified in the
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