Supreme Court · 1998 INSC 378 · Decided 22 September 1998
Ranjit Singh v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1998 INSC 378 · [1998] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 8
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 982/1998
- Decided
- 22 September 1998
- Bench
- M.M. PUNCHHI, K.T. THOMAS, S.S.M. QUADRI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 319, 230, 209
Headnote
<;riminal Procedure Code, 1973 : C Sections 319 read with Sections 209 and 193, 227, 228, 229, 231 and 482-Power of Sessions Court to array a new person as an accused under Section 319-Held, cannot be invoked prior to evidence collection stage­ Except Section 319, there is no intermediary of Section 230 is reached, Sessions Court can deal on(v with the accused referred to in Section 209- D But Sessions Court purporting to act under Section 319 need not wait till the entire evidence has been collected-However, if Sessions Judge notices from the materials produced the positive
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