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2016 Supreme(All) 4125

ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT
Pramod Kumar Srivastava, J.
Rajendri Devi - Appellant
Versus
State of U.P. And Another - Respondent
Criminal Misc. Application No. 25111 of 2016
Decided On : 16-09-2016

Advocates Appeared:
For the Applicant :- R.P.S. Chauhan
For the Opposite Party :- G.A., Devesh Kumar Shukla

The power of revision under section 397 Cr.P.C. is exercised only for considering correctness, legality, and propriety of any finding or regularity of the proceedings.

Headnote:

Cognizance - Criminal Procedure Code - The court considered the issue of whether two proceedings initiated for the same incident should be clubbed under section 210 CrPC and the legal position regarding taking cognizance of an offense again for the same incident. The court found discrepancies in the earlier order of the trial court and held that the power of revision under section 397 Cr.P.C. is exercised only for considering correctness, legality, and propriety of any finding or regularity of the proceedings. The court directed the trial court to re-appreciate the factual and legal aspects of the matter at the time of passing fresh orders on the point of cognizance/summoning, without considering any other observation or direction made by the revisional court in its judgment dated 7.5.2016.

Fact of the Case:

The son of the complainant-applicant had died, and a charge-sheet was filed for an offense under section 304-A IPC. The mother of the deceased filed a complaint case for an offense under section 304 IPC. The lower revisional court quashed the order of the trial court and directed the trial court to dispose of the matter again on the point of summoning. The present application under section 482 CrPC challenged this order.

Finding of the Court:

The court found discrepancies in the earlier order of the trial court and held that the power of revision under section 397 Cr.P.C. is exercised only for considering correctness, legality, and propriety of any finding or regularity of the proceedings. The court directed the trial court to re-appreciate the factual and legal aspects of the matter at the time of passing fresh orders on the point of cognizance/summoning, without considering any other observation or direction made by the revisional court in its judgment dated 7.5.2016.

Issues: The issues involved the clubbing of two proceedings for the same incident under section 210 CrPC and the legal position regarding taking cognizance of an offense again for the same incident.

Ratio Decidendi: The power of revision under section 397 Cr.P.C. is exercised only for considering correctness, legality, and propriety of any finding or regularity of the proceedings. The trial court should re-appreciate the factual and legal aspects of the matter at the time of passing fresh orders on the point of cognizance/summoning, without considering any other observation or direction made by the revisional court in its judgment dated 7.5.2016.

Final Decision: The application is disposed of with the direction that the trial court will re-appreciate the factual and legal aspect of the matter at the time of passing fresh order on the point of cognizance/summoning, without considering any other observation or direction made by the revisional court in its judgment dated 7.5.2016.

JUDGMENT

Pramod Kumar Srivastava, J.

1. Present Sri R.P.S. Chauhan for applicant, Sri Devesh Kumar Shukla for O.P. no.-2 and AGA for the O.P. no.-1 State. Heard and perused the record.

2. Admitted facts of the matter is that son of complainant-applicant, opposite party no.-2 had died. On report lodged by Rakesh Kumar father of the deceased, that case was investigated, in which after investigation, charge-sheet was filed by the police for offence under section 304-A IPC. Thereafter Rajendri Devi, the mother of the deceased (present applicant) had filed complaint case no. 6381 of 2014. in this case, after accepting evidences under section 200 and 202 CrPC, the court of ACJM-II, Aligarh had passed order of cognizance and summoning against opposite party no.-2 (Ranjeet) on 31.3.2015 for offence under section 304 IPC.

3. Against the aforesaid order dated 31.3.2015, Criminal Revision No. 329 of 2015 (Ranjeet Vs. State of UP & another) was preferred by present opposite party no.-2 Ranjeet. The revisional court had allowed this revision on 7.5.2016 and quashed the order dated 31.3.2015 of trial court, and directed that on the basis of discussion mentioned in this judgment, trial court will dispose of the matter again on the point of summoning. This order dated 7.5.2016 of lower revisional court has been challenged through present application under section 482 CrPC.

4. Counsel for the applicant contended that it is a settled legal position that when for same incident two orders of cognizance has been passed and two proceedings have been initiated, then those proceedings should be clubbed under section 210 CrPC, but the trial court had erroneously rejected such request of applicant. He further submitted that lower revisional court had wrongly held in its judgment dated 7.5.2016 that after taking once the cognizance of offence relating an offence, the court cannot take cognizance of another offence again for same incident. His submission was that earlier charge-sheet was filed by police for offence under section 304-A IPC, but after inquiry in complaint case, court had found the commission of offence under section 304 IPC. Therefore, this matter has to be considered in trial court and both the trials initiated on the basis of police report and on the basis of complaint case regarding same incident should be carried out together.

5. Counsel for opposite party no. 2 cited the judgment of Single Bench of Rajasthan High Court in the case of Heera Lal Vs. State of Rajasthan, 1999 CrLJ 3450 and relied this observation of said Court that if once the Magistrate took the cognizance of offence either on the basis of private complaint or on the basis of police report, then it is not permissible for him to take cognizance again on same offence. Counsel for the applicant contended that this legal position is not acceptable in light of other decisions of Hon'ble Apex Court.

6. From perusal of record, it is found that there has been some discrepancies in earlier order of trial court when it had refused to carry out two trials together regarding same incident on the ground that cognizance of one case is for Maistrate triable offence and of another case is for exclusively Sessions Trail offence. The different sub-secitons of Section 210 CrPC provides as to when two proceedings on the basis of two orders of cognizance or one cognizance and another investigation or inquiry may be carried out. This pertinent point was not properly appreciated by trial court.

7. The power of revision under section 397 Cr.P.C. is exercised only for considering correctness, legality and propriety of any finding or regularity of the proceedings. But in present matter lower revisional court had not only made certain observations that may affect the finding of trial court when the matter would be considered after the remand, and if those directions are complied with then, it may affect the independent decision of trial court. In present matter revisional court had rightly found so




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