Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 91, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 354, 354D, 509, 201, 204, Information Technology Act, 2000, Section 67 -- Preservation of call details record and electronic data - Time-sensitive data - Data sought to be preserved would inevitably be deleted within certain time frames and further some records sought including CDRs and CCTV..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 91 -- Preservation of record - Mere allegation accused removed data from his mobile phone while in police custody, in and of itself, is no ground to deny preservation of data and information requested in application, especially when accused had filed complaint alleging that complainant`s husband forcibly destroyed data from his phone...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 133, 138(2) -- Order passed u/ss 133, 138(2) Cr.P.C - Writ petition - Maintainability - Generally, an alternative revision mechanism is available against an order u/s 133 Cr.P.C passed by Magistrate - However, it does not create an absolute bar in invoking writ jurisdiction of High Court u/art 226 of Constitution...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 133, 138(2) -- Order passed u/ss 133, 138(2) Cr.P.C - Writ petition - There is no allegation with respect to violation of principles of natural justice - Even, petitioner could not establish her case with support of any documentary evidence, Court cannot go much beyond pleadings - Since order passed u/ss 133, 138(2) Cr.P.C after..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 506, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 227 -- Rape - Discharge - Prosecutrix made a consistent case in her complaint and statement recorded u/s.164 Cr.P.C. that accused under the pretext of promise to marry continued to have sexual relationship with prosecutrix despite knowing from inception that inter-caste marriage was not..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 328, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 227 -- Administration of stupefying substance - Discharge - Nothing on record substantiates the claim of the prosecutrix that she had been administered any stupefying or unwholesome substance to attract the offence of S.328 IPC - Order of discharge for offence u/s 328 IPC upheld...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 228 -- Framing of charges - At the stage of framing of charges, a prima facie case should be established, focusing on whether there is a strong suspicion against the accused, rather than a detailed assessment of evidence...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 319 -- Summoning of additional accused - Generally on the basis of evidence before it during trial, Sessions Court is fully empowered and armed with competent jurisdiction over issue of summoning additional accused persons to face trial along with accused persons who were already been tried by it...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 319 -- Summoning of additional accused - Petitioners were not named in the FIR - Prosecution has not produced proper and sufficient evidence on the basis of which petitioners could be called by Court to face trial in the case as co-accused, rather it ought to have waited for some other cogent evidence of fact which could easily..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 311 -- Recall of a witness - Word `essential' deliberately finds place in the provision as Court is duty bound to satisfy essentiality with reasons...........
