In a Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 CrPC, the petitioner sought a directive for the police to file a final report in a pending crime. The Court permitted the police to do so within three months and disposed of the petition.
Directed the respondent police to file a final or closure report within a period of three months.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED : 11.03.2021
CORAM
THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE N. ANAND VENKATESH
Crl.O.P No.4858 of 2021
Dilsonraj ... Petitioner/Defacto Complainant
vs.
State, Rep. by The Inspector of Police Walajabad Police Station, Kancheerpuram District. Crime. No.1677 of 2020 ... Respondent/Complainant
PRAYER: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, to direct the respondent police to file a final report in Crime No.1677 of 2020 pending on the file of the respondent Police.
For Petitioner : Mr.R.Sasikumar
For Respondent : Mr.Mohammed Riyaz Additional Public Prosecutor ORDER
This Criminal Original Petition has been filed to direct the respondent police to investigate the Crime No.1677 of 2020 and to file a final report within a stipulated time frame, or any other order or orders as this Court may deem fit and proper under the circumstances of the above case.
2.Heard the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing on behalf of the respondent.
3.The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner would submit that though the respondent has registered a case in the above said crime number on 20.09.2020, no final report is filed till date.
4.The learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent would submit that the respondent police may be
permitted to file a final report within a period of three months.
5.In view of the above, the respondent police is directed to either file a final report or closure report, as the case may be, within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order under due intimation to the defacto complainant.
6.With the above direction, this Criminal Original Petition is disposed of.
Sd/-
Assistant Registrar
//True Copy//
Sub Assistant Registrar
jv
To
1. The Inspector of Police
Walajabad Police Station,
Kancheerpuram District.
2. The Public Prosecutor,
High Court of Madras,
Chennai 600 104.
+1 cc to M/s.R.Sasikumar, Advocate Sr.No. 15504
Crl.O.P No.4858 of 2021
GPL(CO)
RMP(31/03/2021)
1 issue framed by the court
Whether to direct the respondent police to file a final or closure report within a specified time frame in Crime No.1677 of 2020.
1 provisions across 1 enactments
Dilsonraj
State
N. Anand Venkatesh
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