{"id":20627,"date":"1990-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1990-11-20T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/state-of-u-p-vs-parashottam-on-21-november-1990"},"modified":"2018-12-30T19:08:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T13:38:32","slug":"state-of-u-p-vs-parashottam-on-21-november-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/state-of-u-p-vs-parashottam-on-21-november-1990","title":{"rendered":"State Of U.P. vs Parashottam on 21 November, 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">State Of U.P. vs Parashottam on 21 November, 1990<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: AIR 1991 SC 1015, 1991 CriLJ 741, 1991 Supp (2) SCC 124<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: K Singh, K Ramaswamy<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1. First Information Report Under Sections 120B and 420, I.P.C., was registered against the respondent and others on the charge that they fraudulently and dishonestly induced the Deputy Chief Controller of Imports and Exports to issue them a quota certificate dated 14th December, 1956. The other allegation against them were that on the basis of the said quota certificate they obtained three import licenses on 8-1-57, 20-4-57 and 7-1-58 in the name of a non-existent firm. The learned Special Magistrate framed one charge against the respondent and others in respect of all the allegations. The respondent Parshottam filed revision petition in the High Court against the charge framed on the ground that there being separate offences the case was governed by Section 219, Cr.P.C. and separate charges should have been framed in respect of different kind of offences. The High Court by its judgment dated July 27, 1977 accepted the revision of the respondent Parshottam and sent back the case to the Special Magistrate with a direction that he should frame two charges and split the case into two trials as indicated in the said judgment. This appeal via special leave petition by the State of U.P. is against the judgment of the High Court.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. We have heard learned Counsel for the parties. It is not necessary to go into the merits of the High Court judgment. The case was registered against the respondent and others on 31-12-58 and a charge sheet was submitted in the court on 20-11-59. The Special Magis trate framed the charges against the accused persons on 10-11-76. The High Court, by the judgment under appeal, has directed framing of fresh charges against the accused persons. It is admitted position that the charges in terms of High Court judgment have not as yet been framed.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. In the facts and circumstances of this case we are of the view that the prosecution against the accused persons must come to an end. The case was registered more than 30 years back. Thereafter it took 17 years to frame the charges. Even the judgment of the High Court was delivered about 13 years back. Whatever may be the reason, the fact remains that prosecution is pending in this case over three decades and even the trial has not as yet commenced. It would be travesty of justice if we permit the prosecution to continue. While dismissing the State appeal, we allow the Criminal M. P. 3571 of 1990 and quash the criminal prosecution against the accused persons in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of India State Of U.P. vs Parashottam on 21 November, 1990 Equivalent citations: AIR 1991 SC 1015, 1991 CriLJ 741, 1991 Supp (2) SCC 124 Bench: K Singh, K Ramaswamy JUDGMENT 1. First Information Report Under Sections 120B and 420, I.P.C., was registered against the respondent and others on the charge that they [&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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supreme-court-of-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State Of U.P. vs Parashottam on 21 November, 1990 - 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\/state-of-u-p-vs-parashottam-on-21-november-1990\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"State Of U.P. vs Parashottam on 21 November, 1990 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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