{"id":166728,"date":"1999-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-21T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/raghubir-singh-vs-state-on-22-november-1999"},"modified":"2016-11-06T23:37:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T18:07:58","slug":"raghubir-singh-vs-state-on-22-november-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/raghubir-singh-vs-state-on-22-november-1999","title":{"rendered":"Raghubir Singh vs State on 22 November, 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Delhi High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Raghubir Singh vs State on 22 November, 1999<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 2000 IAD Delhi 722, 83 (2000) DLT 189<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: M Siddiqui<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: M Siddiqui<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>M.S.A. Siddiqui, J.<\/p>\n<p>1.     By  this  petition  under Section 482 Cr.P.C.,  the  petitioner  seeks quashing  of  the criminal proceedings emanating from the  FIR  No.  260\/96 under  Sections 3,4,5 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act  (for  short &#8216;the Act&#8217;) and pending on the file of the Metropolitan Magistrate, Delhi.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.   The petitioner was suspected of having committed the offences punishable under Sections 3,4,5 of the Act. The impugned FIR was registered at the<br \/>\nPolice  Station Preet Vihar and the case was investigated by the  Inspector R.P. Tyagi. Investigation pursuant to the said FIR culminated into  submission of a charge-sheet under Sections 3, 4, 5 of the Act against the  petitioners  and  others. On charge-sheet being filed, the  learned  Magistrate took  cognizance  of the offence against the petitioner and  other  accused persons  vide  orders dated 27.2.1998. Aggrieved  thereby,  the  petitioner moved  the Additional Sessions Judge, Delhi by filing a revision  petition, which  was  dismissed vide order dated 3.12.1998. Not  satisfied  with  the dismissal of the revision petition, the petitioner has come up before  this Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C.\n<\/p>\n<p>3.   The only point for consideration, in this case, is whether the Inspector  R.P.Tyagi,  who  is neither a Special Officer under the  Act  nor  the<br \/>\nStation House Officer of the P.S. Preet Vihar, can validly investigate  the offences  under the Act. It is relevant to mention that the Act is  a  complete  Code  in  itself. It provides machinery to deal  with  the  offences created  thereunder, in accordance with the provisions of the  Special  Act and  its necessary implication is that no other machinery is  competent  to deal with those offences. According to Section 13 of the Act, &#8220;there  shall be, for each area to be specified by the State Government, a special Police Officer  appointed  by  or on behalf of that Government  for  dealing  with offences  under the Act in that area&#8221;. By the notification  No.  F-5\/67\/88, dated  14.12.1988, issued under sub-section (1) of Section 13 of  the  Act, all  Assistant Commissioners of Police, all Station House Officers and  all the  Assistant Commissioners of Police of Crime Branch, Palam  Airport  and Railways  have been appointed as Special Officers for the purposes  of  the Act.  Learned counsel for the State has fairly conceded that the  Inspector R.P.Tyagi was not the Special Police Officer within the meaning of  Section 13 of the Act. In Delhi Administration Vs. Ram Singh, ,  it<br \/>\nwas  held  that the Police Officer not specifically  appointed  as  Special Police  Officers cannot investigate the offences under the Act.  Since  Inspector  R.P.Tyagi was not a Special Police Officer within the  meaning  of Section 13 of the Act, he was not competent to investigate the case against<br \/>\nthe  petitioner and other co-accused persons. I, therefore, hold  that  the arrest  of the petitioner by the Inspector R.P.Tyagi and the  investigation<br \/>\nof the case by him were illegal and the proceedings emanating from the  FIR No.260\/96 are liable to quashed.\n<\/p>\n<p>4.   For the reasons mentioned, the petition is allowed and the  proceeding emanating from the FIR No.260\/96 and pending on the file of the  Metropolitan Magistrate, Delhi are quashed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi High Court Raghubir Singh vs State on 22 November, 1999 Equivalent citations: 2000 IAD Delhi 722, 83 (2000) DLT 189 Author: M Siddiqui Bench: M Siddiqui ORDER M.S.A. Siddiqui, J. 1. By this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C., the petitioner seeks quashing of the criminal proceedings emanating from the FIR No. 260\/96 under Sections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Raghubir Singh vs State on 22 November, 1999 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/raghubir-singh-vs-state-on-22-november-1999\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Raghubir Singh vs State on 22 November, 1999 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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