Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 528 · Decided 19 October 2001
State of Bihar v. Baidnath Prasad@ Baidyanath Shah and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 528 · [2001] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 461
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1075/2001
- Decided
- 19 October 2001
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, S.N. VARIAVA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Leave Granted & Allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 482, 244, 245
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 : Section 482-Quashing of criminal proceedings-Prayer for discharge in a long pending criminal matter before Judicial Magistrate-Rejected­ Accused moved the High Court-High Court observed that the case is pending for several years-Nothing on record to show that the criminal proceed­ ings-On appeal, held, the seriousness qf the qffence involved is not to be over­ looked while considering the question whether delay alone is sufficient to quash criminal proceeding-High Court order set aside. Section 245-Applicability of-An order o.f discharge can
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