Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 11 · Decided 4 January 2019
Swapan Kumar Chatterjee v. Central Bureau of Investigation
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 11 · [2019] 3 S.C.R. 713
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 15/2019
- Decided
- 4 January 2019
- Bench
- A.K. SIKRI, S. ABDUL NAZEER (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 477A, 471, 468, 420, 120B; CrPC Section 311; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 5(2)
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 311 - Power under - Scope of - Held: The power should be exercised with great caution and circumspection and should be invoked by the court only to meet the ends of justice - In the facts of the present case, the application for Allowing the appeal, the Court HELD: 1. The power conferred under Section 311 Cr.P.C. should be invoked by the court only to meet the ends of justice. The power is to be exercised only for strong and valid reasons and it should be exercised with great caution and circumspection. The court
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