{"id":41588,"date":"2016-02-23T06:15:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T00:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=41588"},"modified":"2016-02-23T06:15:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T00:45:50","slug":"only-higher-courts-have-power-to-change-probe-agency-madras-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/only-higher-courts-have-power-to-change-probe-agency-madras-hc","title":{"rendered":"Only higher courts have power to change probe agency: Madras HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38866\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/Madras-HC.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38866\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38866\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-allows-chinese-consortium-plea-against-bhels-tender\/madras-hc-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/Madras-HC.jpg?fit=420%2C256&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"420,256\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Madras-HC\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/Madras-HC.jpg?fit=300%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/Madras-HC.jpg?fit=420%2C256&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-38866 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/Madras-HC.jpg?resize=300%2C183&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Only higher courts have power to change probe agency: Madras HC\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/Madras-HC.jpg?resize=300%2C183&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/Madras-HC.jpg?w=420&amp;ssl=1 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Only higher courts have power to change probe agency: Madras HC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Madras High Court has held that judicial magistrates cannot order change of investigating agency in criminal cases as such power was vested only with higher courts.<\/p>\n<p>If judicial magistrates are not satisfied with the probe by local police, at the most, they can only direct further investigation and cannot order any other agency such as Crime-Branch Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID), to go into the case, Justice C T Selvam of the Madurai bench said in his order.<\/p>\n<p>Relying upon a 2015 Supreme Court ruling, the Judge said the power to change investigating agencies was reserved for the higher courts.<\/p>\n<p>He was allowing a petition by CB-CID in Tiruchirappalli challenging a direction given to them by a Magistrate to investigate a criminal complaint lodged by a 62-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>The judge set aside the Magistrate&#8217;s order and also quashed the FIR registered by the police as well as all proceedings related to it.<\/p>\n<p>While the local police registered an FIR in 2006 and filed two negative reports, the magistrate had ordered the CB-CID probe in 2009 on a petition by the man seeking change of investigating agency.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Madras High Court has held that judicial magistrates cannot order change of investigating agency in criminal cases as such power was vested only with higher courts. 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