{"id":45223,"date":"1992-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1992-07-20T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mangu-ram-and-ors-vs-the-state-of-rajasthan-on-21-july-1992"},"modified":"2018-04-28T00:53:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T19:23:09","slug":"mangu-ram-and-ors-vs-the-state-of-rajasthan-on-21-july-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mangu-ram-and-ors-vs-the-state-of-rajasthan-on-21-july-1992","title":{"rendered":"Mangu Ram And Ors. vs The State Of Rajasthan on 21 July, 1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Rajasthan High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Mangu Ram And Ors. vs The State Of Rajasthan on 21 July, 1992<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 1993 CriLJ 1972, 1992 WLN UC 140<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: B Arora<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: B Arora<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>B.R. Arora, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. This miscellaneous petition is directed against the order dated June 12, 1990, passed by the Munsif and Judicial Magistrate, Nawa, by which the learned Magistrate took cognizance against the accused petitioners for the offences under Sections 384 and 342, I.P.C.\n<\/p>\n<pre>2.    On Sept. 25, 1986,    an F.I.R. was lodged at Police Station, Maroth, and a case under Sections 384 and 342,    I.P.C. was registered against the   accused-petitioners. The police, after necessary    investigation, presented the Final Report, but the learned Magistrate did not accept the Final Report and took cognizance against the petitioners for the offences under Sections 384 and 342, I.P.C. by its order dated June 12, 1990.\n \n\n3.    As the limitation    for    taking the cognizance under Sections    384 and 342, I.P.C. had already expired, therefore, the complainant filed an application for condoning the delay and the learned Magistrate condoned the delay, and extended the period of limitation under Section 473, Cr.P.C. and took the cognizance against the accused-petitioners for   the   offences   under Sections 384 and 342, I.P.C.\n \n\n<\/pre>\n<p>4.    Section 468 to  473, Cr.P.C. deal with the limitation for taking cognizance of certain offences. Section 468, Cr.P.C. bars the taking of cognizance after a lapse of the period of limitation provided under Sub-section (2) of Section 468, whereas Section 473, Cr.P.C. empowers the Court to take cognizance of the offences after the expiry of the period of limitation satisfying himself on the facts and in the circumstances of the case and to condone the delay if the delay has been properly explained or it is necessary so to do in the interest of justice. If the conditions for condoning the delay, as provided under Section 473, Cr.P.C. are satisfied, the court can condone the delay. It is an admitted position that in the present case, the cognizance has been taken by the learned lower Court after the expiry of the period of limitation. Though the Court is competent under Section 473, Cr.P.C. to take cognizance against the accused after the expiry of the period of limitation if the delay in taking the cognizance is properly explained or the Court, in the interest of justice, deems it necessary to condone the delay, but an opportunity of hearing is necessary to be given to the accused persons before extending the period of limitation, as the extension of the period of limitation without giving an opportunity of hearing to the accused affects a valuable right of the accused. If an opportunity of hearing is given to the accused-petitioners, they may be able to show that the delay sought to be condoned is not just and expedient at all and the interest of justice does not permit the extension of the period of limitation. The accused can, also, show to the Court that the grounds alleged for the extension of the period of limitation are wholly unfounded and the condonation of the delay is wholly unwarranted. The extension of the period of limitation without giving an opportunity of hearing to the accused-persons affects the valuable rights of the petitioners. In the present case the order condoning the delay and taking cognizance after the expiry of the period of limitation, has been passed without giving an opportunity of hearing to the accused-petitioners and, therefore, the order, passed by the learned Court below, deserves to be quashed and set aside.\n<\/p>\n<p>5. In the result, the miscellaneous petition, filed by the petitioners, is allowed. The order dated June 12, 1990, condoning the delay and taking cognizance by the learned Munsif and Judicial Magistrate, Nawa, is set aside and the case is remanded to the learned Magistrate. It will be, now, open to the learned Magistrate to reconsider the application for extension of the period of limitation after giving an opportunity of hearing to the accused-petitioners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan High Court Mangu Ram And Ors. vs The State Of Rajasthan on 21 July, 1992 Equivalent citations: 1993 CriLJ 1972, 1992 WLN UC 140 Author: B Arora Bench: B Arora ORDER B.R. Arora, J. 1. This miscellaneous petition is directed against the order dated June 12, 1990, passed by the Munsif and Judicial Magistrate, [&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":[8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-rajasthan-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mangu Ram And Ors. vs The State Of Rajasthan on 21 July, 1992 - 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\/mangu-ram-and-ors-vs-the-state-of-rajasthan-on-21-july-1992\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mangu Ram And Ors. vs The State Of Rajasthan on 21 July, 1992 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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