Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 64 · Decided 29 January 2014
Vishal Agrawal & ANR. v. Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 64 · [2014] 1 S.C.R. 857
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 275/2014
- Decided
- 29 January 2014
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, A.K. SIKRI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 154, 4, 172, 173; Electricity Act Section 135, 126, 151, 155
Headnote
ELECTRIC/TY ACT, 2003: A B s. 151rlw ss.1351126 of the Act and r.12 of Electricity c Rules, 2005 - Theft of electricity - Officers authorized to file complaint - Cognizance of offences - Plea that Assistant Engineer had no authority to make a written complaint - Held: - Amendment to s.151 - Further, notwithstanding the provisions of s. 151 of the Act, an FIR o could be filed with the police - Even when a Magistrate is to take cognizance on a complaint filed before him, that would not mean that no other avenue is opened and complaint/FIR cannot be lodged with the police -
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