Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 732 · Decided 29 October 2013
State of Bihar & ANR. v. Lalu Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 732 · [2013] 10 S.C.R. 552
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1883/2013
- Decided
- 29 October 2013
- Bench
- C.K. PRASAD, J.S. KHEHAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 27; CrPC Section 173, 173(2), 36; Constitution; Arms Act Section 27
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s. 173 - State of C Bihar - Criminal Investigation Department (CID) - Whether Inspector of C.l.D. can be treated in law as officer-in-charge of the police station for purpose of submitting the report contemplated uls. 173(2) - Held: r.431 (b) envisages that an can exercise the power of an officer-in- D charge of a police station - Once it is held that the Inspector of C.l.D. can exercise the power of an officer-in-charge of a police station, its' natural corollary is that the Inspector of C.l.D. is competent to submit the report as contemplated uls. 173
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