This had not been done, the HC said, adding the police could not have lodged an FIR or file a charge-sheet.In fact, the concerned magistrate ought to have perused the charge-sheet and the sections applied before taking cognizance of it, the HC bench observed.The petition is accordingly allowed and the FIR as well as proceedings pending before the additional chief metropolitan magistrate are quashed and set aside, the High Court order said.
The Supreme Court on Monday held that Section 319 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), which deals power to summon persons, can be invoked before the pronouncement of the order of either acquittal or before sentence in case of conviction of the case.
Forced religious conversion may pose a danger to national security and impinge on the religious freedom of citizens, SC had earlier said and asked the Centre to step in and make sincere efforts to tackle the
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