Supreme Court · 2026 INSC 120 · Decided 4 February 2026
Pramod Kumar & ORS. v. State of Uttar Pradesh ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2026 INSC 120 · [2026] 2 S.C.R. 481
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 687/2026
- Decided
- 4 February 2026
- Bench
- RAJESH BINDAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- BNSS Section 193(3), 193(9); IPC; CrPC Section 173(2), 193(9), 173(8)
Headnote
Whether after submitting a final report u/s.173(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) (s.193(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS)), the police/investigating agency can conduct further investigation u/s.173(8) of CrPC (s.193(9) of BNSS) of the Magistrate/ Court concerned. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.173(2), s.173(8) - Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 - s.193(3), s.193(9) - An FIR was registered against seven accused persons including appellants for the offence
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