Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 545 · Decided 21 August 2013
PROF. K.V. Rajendran v. Superintendent of Police, Cbcid South Zone, Chennai & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 545 · [2013] 9 S.C.R. 199
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1167/2013
- Decided
- 21 August 2013
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA, KURIAN JOSEPH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 173(2), 173(8), 482; Constitution Article 136, 226
Headnote
INVEST/GA TION: Transfer of investigation to CBI - ·Held: Supreme Court A B c or High Court can exercise its constitutional powers for transferring an investigation from the State investigating agency to any other independent CBI only in rare and exceptional cases - Where the investigation has already been completed and charge sheet has been filed, ordinarily superior courts should not reopen the investigation and it should be left open to the\court, where the charge-sheet has been filed, to proceed with the matter in
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