Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.482 – Quashing of charge-sheet – Charge-sheet filed under ss.420, 498A, 323, 376,
506 IPC and ss.3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 – Petition filed under s.482 for quashing the charge sheet – By impugned order, s.482 petition was dismissed by High Court on the ground that there was no illegality or perversity in the eyes of law and no good ground to interfere with the order of sessions judge – On appeal, held: In the impugned order, there was no appreciation of factual matrix of the case – The order was non-reasoned one and did not disclose application of mind to the case – Matter remitted to High Court for consideration afresh – Judgments/Orders – Non-reasoned order.
Allowing the appeal and remitting the matter to High Court, the Court
HELD: The Single Judge ought to have first set out the brief facts of the case with a view to understand the factual matrix and then should have examined the challenge made to the proceedings on the question involved with a view to record the findings on the grounds urged by the appellant as to whether any case for interference therein is made out or not. The said exercise was not done by the High Court while passing an unreasoned impugned order, which does not disclose any application of mind to the case. [Paras 10, 11][53-B-D]
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