G. CHANDRASEKHARAN
V. Vasanth @ Vasanthakumar – Appellant
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State rep. by The Inspector of Police, W-7, All Women Police Station – Respondent
ORDER :
PRAYER: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. praying to call for the records in C.C.No.19 of 2022 on the file of the Addl.Mahila Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Egmore, Chennai and quash the same as against the petitioner.
This Criminal Original Petition is filed to call for the records in C.C.No.19 of 2022, on the file of the Addl.Mahila Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Egmore, Chennai and quash the same as against the petitioner.
2. The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that complaint in this case was given before the Inspector of Police, K3 Police Station, All Women Police Station, Anna Nagar, Chennai. His further submission is that this being a case registered under Sections 354 C, 506 (i) IPC and Sections 67, 67A & 67C of Information Technology Act, 2000, only law and order police can register the complaint and not All Women Police Station.
3. The next submission is that electronic documents had not been supported by the certificate under Section 65B of the Indian Evidence Act. In support of his submission that because of faulty registration of FIR and non production of the certificate under Section 65B of the Indian Evidence Act, prosec
The court affirmed that a pending police investigation does not bar subsequent complaints on similar allegations, under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
The main legal point established in the judgment is that the allegations in the FIR made out commission of cognizable offences by the petitioner, and therefore, the allegations must be necessarily in....
The Station House Officer is obligated to register an FIR upon receiving information about a cognizable offence, and the learned Magistrate must independently assess the complaint before directing po....
Section 78 of Information Technology Act, 2000 which reads as power to investigate offences.
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