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2008 Supreme(Mad) 3009

R.REGUPATHI
P. Ashok Kumar & Another – Appellant
Versus
Inspector of Police, Crime, V3 J. J. Nagar Police Station, Chennai – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner:R. Karthikeyan, S. Doraisamy and N. Raja Senthoor Pandian, Advocates.
For the Respondent:J.C Durai, Government Advocate. For the Intervener:K.P. Anantha Krishnan, Advocate.

Judgment :

Sensing the derailment of procedure established by law at the bottom level of the subordinate judiciary, in that, some Judicial Magistrates, in collusion with complainant Bankers/Financial Institutions, are in the habit of entertaining complaints relating to matters purely of civil nature and thereby, in abuse of judicial discretion and power, superabundantly passing orders under Section 156(3) Cr.P.C. for investigation of such matters by the police for the undue benefit of the financial institutions, and in some instances they are entertaining similar complaints by themselves under Section 200 Cr.P.C., vigilance enquiries were conducted and reports received and the complaints entertained by them came to be quashed by orders of this Court passed in a number of petitions filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. In spite of such reaction by this court and repeated directions to the Judicial Magistrates not to refer the complaints/matters of civil nature for police investigation, recently, while dealing with like matters, it has come to light that such illegal trend is still widely in vogue. Since it was deeply felt that the issue relates to the propriety o















































































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