Wherever there is inordinate delay on the part of the investigating agency in completing the investigation, such delay, ipso facto, would provide ground for quashing the First Information Report or the proceedings arising therefrom. The above view is supported...
Month: April 2019
If an FIR once started, shall not be cancelled by the police, nor by the Magistrate. Recording of FIR means starting of an investigation of a cognizable case which can only be concluded in any of the following ways: By...
1. Recording of information in General Diary: Officer-in-charge of a police station can record any information in G.D U/S 44 Police Act 1861. 44. Police officers to keep diary – It shall be the duty of every officer in charge...
The law of evidence is designed to ensure that the court considers only that evidence which will enable it to reach a reliable conclusion. The first and foremost requirement for expert evidence to be admissible is that it is...
Criminal-Learned advocate appearing on behalf of the appellants, in the alternative, has prayed to impose the lesser punishment and consequently to modify the sentence imposed by the courts below, he said that the accused is ready to pay enhanced...
CRIMINAL - Section 302 read with Section 149 - the FIR was registered on 12.08.1989 but was forwarded to the Magistrate only on 16.08.1989, after a delay of 4 days, becomes significant in light of the inconsistencies...
CRIMINAL - Sections 365 and 352 of the Indian Penal Code - Normally, the Court may reject the case of the prosecution in case of inordinate delay in lodging the first information report because of the possibility of concoction...