Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 944 · Decided 18 August 2008
Superintendent of Police, Karnataka Lokayuktha and Anr v. B. Srinivas
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 944 · [2008] 12 S.C.R. 165
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1289/2008
- Decided
- 18 August 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 482; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 13(2)
Headnote
Delay/Laches: Delay in investigation - Effect of, on right of accused to speedy trial - Held: There is no general propo- sition of law that whenever there is delay on the part of the investigating agency in completing the investigation, such delay for quashing FIR - Question as to whether accused was deprived of fair trial on account of delay or pro- tracted investigation, would depend on various factors includ- ing whether such delay was reasonably long or caused delib- erately to hamper the defence of accused or whether delay was
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