Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 76 · Decided 20 January 2023
Saurav Das v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 76 · [2023] 1 S.C.R. 731
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1126/2022
- Decided
- 20 January 2023
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, C.T. RAVIKUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 173, 207, 173(4), 173(5); Evidence Act Section 73, 74, 75, 76; Constitution Article 32; RTI Act Section 4(1)(b), 4(2), 4, 4(1)(2)
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973:ss. 173, 207 - Report of police officer on completion of investigation - Writ Petition u/Art. 32 seeking direction to all the States to upload all chargesheets on public domain/websites - Held: Relief sought is contrary to scheme of CrPC - as victim and/or even the investigating agency - Putting the FIR on the website cannot be equated with putting the chargesheets along with the relevant documents on the public domain and on the websites of the State Governments - Chargesheet are not public documents u/s. 73 of the
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