Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 30 · Decided 11 January 2013
Ravinder Singh v. Sukhbir Singh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 30 · [2013] 1 S.C.R. 243
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 67/2013
- Decided
- 11 January 2013
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, V. GOPALA GOWDA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34; CrPC Section 403(2), 173, 169, 482
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: A B s.482 - Quashing of criminal proceedings - Contempt c petition for filing two criminal writ petitions on same facts and for same relief - High Court closed the proceedings - Criminal complaint u/s 3(1)(viii) of 1989 Act filed for filing the said two criminal petition has dealt with the issue involved and the matter stood 0 closed at the instance of complainant himself - Therefore, there can be no justification whatsoever to launch criminal prosecution on that basis afresh - Inherent power of court in dealing with an extraordinary situation is in
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