Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 576 · Decided 21 November 2001
Pritish v. State of Maharashtra and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 576 · [2001] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 302
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1188/2001
- Decided
- 21 November 2001
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, S.N. PHUKAN, Y.K. SABHARWAL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 340, 341, 343, 238To243
Headnote
c D Criminal Procedure Code, 1973: Sections 340, 341, 343, 238 To 243-0ffences q[fecting administration of justice-Preliminary inqui1y for initiating prosecution proceedings­ Opportunity of hearing to the accused-Necessity of-Held, there is no statu­ tory requirement to afford an be initiated or not-It is only when the prosecution proceedings commences, accused has a legal right to be heard-Merely because appeal is provided under Section 341, court is not obliged to afford an opportunity to the accused at the stage of preliminary inquiry---Albninistrative la~v-Principles
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