Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 292 · Decided 7 May 2021
Sanjay Kumar Rai v. State of Uttar Pradesh & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 292 · [2021] 7 S.C.R. 143
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 472/2021
- Decided
- 7 May 2021
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, SURYA KANT, ANIRUDDHA BOSE (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 504, 506; CrPC Section 397, 397(2); Prevention of Corruption Act
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.397 - Criminal revision - Judicial Magistrate declined to discharge appellant in a case u/ ss.504 and 506 IPC - Criminal revision against the order turned down by High Court on ground of lack of jurisdiction u/s.397 CrPC while citing a case - On appeal, held: The High Court apparently under-appreciated the decision in Asian Resurfacing case - One may say so at least for two reasons - Firstly, the said case dealt with a challenge to charges framed under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (POCA)
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