{"id":39873,"date":"1985-07-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1985-07-26T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mandanna-vs-state-of-karnataka-on-27-july-1985"},"modified":"2019-03-22T19:14:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T13:44:51","slug":"mandanna-vs-state-of-karnataka-on-27-july-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mandanna-vs-state-of-karnataka-on-27-july-1985","title":{"rendered":"Mandanna vs State Of Karnataka on 27 July, 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Karnataka High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Mandanna vs State Of Karnataka on 27 July, 1985<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: ILR 1985 KAR 2822<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Venkatesb<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Venkatesh<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>Venkatesb, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. Since common questions of law and facts arise in these two proceedings, they were clubbed and heard together.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.    These are applications filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. 1973.    They are by persons who are arrayed or shown as the accused by the police in their respective crime numbers. The request is to quash the investigation that are  being conduct-ed by the concerned<br \/>\npolice.\n<\/p>\n<p>3.    Before examining the claims of  the   petitioners  on merits, the first question that   has   to be resolved   is as to whether this Court exercising its  powers under  Section 482 Cr.P.C. interfere with  the  investigation  pending with  the police.\n<\/p>\n<p>4.    Following a   previous    ruling    of this    Court   in Chandrasekhara v. State, 1978(2) K.L.J. 273 and  the decisions of the Supreme Court having a  bearing   on this  question  this  Court,  in Maheswarappa v. State of  Karnataka, 1983(2) K.L.J 85 has   held   that the High Court exercising its powers   under   Section 482 of the<br \/>\nCode cannot interfere in the course of the investigation by the police or quash the first information report.\n<\/p>\n<p>5.    However, learned Counsel for the petitioners drawing my attention   to   <a href=\"\/doc\/1684706\/\">Pratibha   Rani v. Suraj Kumar and Another,  and<\/a> referring to some passages in the said<br \/>\nJudgment submitted that the High Court may, in an appropriate case, exercising its powers under Section 482 of the Code, interfere  with  the  investigation  pending with the police or direct them not to proceed further.\n<\/p>\n<p>6.    I have carefully considered  the aforesaid submissions of the Learned  Counsel  in  the light  of the decision of the Supreme Court in Pratibha<br \/>\nRani. I am unable to agree with the Learned Counsel.   Some of the previous decisions of the Supreme Court wherein the said Court has clearly observed that it is not permissible for the High Court to interfere with the course of investigation   exercising   its powers under Section 482 of the Code have been referred to and followed by this Court  in  Maheshwarappa and  also  in the earlier ruling in Chandrasekhara.  According to  me  the Supreme Court  has not   taken  a different  view  of the   matter in Pratibha Rani.\n<\/p>\n<p>7.    Though the possibility of the superior Courts interfering in the course of the  investigation in exceptional cases is envisaged in some rulings of the Supreme Court, the source of that power is traced to the<br \/>\nextraordinary powers reserved to them by the Constitution of the Country. The observations of the  Supreme Court  in  <a href=\"\/doc\/644972\/\">S. N.  Sharma v. Bipen Kumar Tiwari  &amp; Others,  and  R. P. Singh<\/a> v. J. A. C. Saldanna &amp; Others,  make this  position clear.    In Sharma&#8217;s case  the Supreme Court observes as under at para-7:\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It appears to us that, though the Code of Criminal Procedure gives to the police unfettered power to investigate all cases where they suspect that a cognizable offence has been committed, in appropriate cases an aggrieved person can always seek a remedy by invoking the power of the High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution under which, if the High Court could be convinced that the power of investigation has been exercised by a police officer mala fide, the High Court can always issue a writ of mandamus restraining the police officer from misusing his legal powers. The fact that the Code does not contain any other provision giving power to a Magistrate to stop investigation by the police cannot be a ground for holding that such a power must be read in Section 159 of the Code.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>In Saldanna&#8217;s Case the Supreme Court, after referring to Sharma&#8217;s Case have reiterated the said view.\n<\/p>\n<p>8.    For reasons aforesaid, I find no grounds to deviate from the ratio enunciated by this Court in Maheswarappa&#8217;s Case.\n<\/p>\n<p>9.    Accordingly   being of   opinion that  the course of investigation   pending     with   the   investigating   agencies should not be interfered with by the Court exercising its power under Section 482   Cr. P.C.,   I dismiss   these two Petitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka High Court Mandanna vs State Of Karnataka on 27 July, 1985 Equivalent citations: ILR 1985 KAR 2822 Author: Venkatesb Bench: Venkatesh ORDER Venkatesb, J. 1. Since common questions of law and facts arise in these two proceedings, they were clubbed and heard together. 2. These are applications filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. 1973. 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