Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1282 · Decided 4 November 2025
Sadiq B. Hanchinmani v. The State of Karnataka & ORS. R1: the State of Karnataka R2: Chndrumal R3: Sanjay R4: Nandkumar R5: Vijay
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1282 · [2025] 11 S.C.R. 246
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 4728/2025
- Decided
- 4 November 2025
- Bench
- PANKAJ MITHAL, AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 120B, 201, 419, 471, 468, 420; CrPC Section 156(3), 482, 173(8); CPC; RTI Act
Headnote
Issue arose whether the direction for investigation to the police issued by the JMFC-Judicial Magistrate First Class u/s.156(3) CrPC which was quashed by the impugned orders, justified; had sufficient material before it so as to justify the course of action of referring the matter for investigation to the police invoking power u/s.156(3) of the Code, resulting in the institution of the FIR. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - ss.156(3), 482 -
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