Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 33 · Decided 16 January 2014
Varinder Singh v. State of Punjab & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 33 · [2014] 1 S.C.R. 496
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 147/2014
- Decided
- 16 January 2014
- Bench
- S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA, V. GOPALA GOWDA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 482
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 - Petition seeking to quash FIR and criminal proceedings - Petitioner, a visitor to prison - On search, mobile phone and charger recovered from him - FIR for offences punishable ulss 42 and 45 of the Prisons Act - High 0 Court rejecting the petition - clearly falls under category (1) of the grounds of quashing of FIR mentioned in the case of Bhajan Lal - On the date of alleged offence, mobile phone or charger was not listed as one of the prohibited articles under Punjab Prison Manual - Thus, no E offence is made out u/s 42 of the Act, as
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