Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 427 · Decided 4 October 2002
State of Punjab and ANR. v. Rajesh Syal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 427 · [2002] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 124
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1037/2002
- Decided
- 4 October 2002
- Bench
- B.N. KIRPAL, K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, ARIJIT PASAYAT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Leave granted
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 406, 420, 468, 471, 1208; CrPC Section 218(1), 482, 218, 220; Constitution Article 142, 32
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.218(1), Proviso 220 and 482-Conso/idation of cases-A company . and its director defrauding members of public-Cases filed against them in various courts thr.oughout the State-Director filing petition before High Court for quashing the charges against him as also the order of Supreme Court in V.K. D Sharma's ·case* as precedent, directed all the cases to be transferred to one court-Held, proviso to s.218 would apply only in such a case where the distinct offences for which accused is charged are being tried before the same Magistrate-In the
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