Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1222 · Decided 6 November 2009
Rasiklal Dalpatram Thakkar v. State of Gujarat and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1222 · [2009] 15 S.C.R. 722
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2041/2009
- Decided
- 6 November 2009
- Bench
- ALTAMAS KABIR, CYRIAC JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 156(3), 190, 202, 156
Headnote
~ Code of c;riminal Procedure, 1973: s. 156(3). - Investigating agency cannot decide not to investigate a -~ complaint forwarded to it under s.156(3) on the ground that c offence complained of was allegedly committed outside its territorial jurisdiction. The question in the present appeal was whether in regard to the order passed under Section 156(3) Cr.P.C., the police authorities ., D empowered under Sub-Section (1) of Section 156 can ~ unilaterally decide not to conduct an investigation on the ground that they had no territorial jurisdiction to
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