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Issues: Whether the Magistrate could take cognizance against a person exonerated in the final report on the basis of the police report itself under Section 190(1)(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and whether the petitioner's prayer for discharge could survive in view of subsequent framing of charge.
Analysis: The statutory scheme permits a Magistrate to consider the materials in the police report independently and to take cognizance of the offence even if the investigating agency has filed a final report exonerating the accused. The Court distinguished the line of cases dealing with the Magistrate's power of further inquiry at the committal stage, and held that the present case did not require awaiting the larger Bench reference because the cognizance here was taken directly on the police report. The application for discharge under Section 227 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 had already been rejected, and charges were stated to have since been framed.
Conclusion: The Magistrate's cognizance was legally sustainable, and the challenge to the discharge order did not survive.
Final Conclusion: The petitioner's challenge failed, and the proceeding had become infructuous.
Ratio Decidendi: A Magistrate may, on the basis of a police report under Section 190(1)(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, independently take cognizance of an offence notwithstanding the investigating agency's conclusion that no case is made out against the accused.
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