Section 210 CrPC applies only when a police investigation is pending in the same offence; clubbing was refused here.

Section 210 CrPC applies only when, during inquiry or trial in a complaint case, a police investigation into the same offence is still pending. Where the police had already filed the final report under Section 173 before the complaint was instituted, no parallel investigation remained for clubbing. The complaint and FIR matters were also treated as relating to different offences, so they could not be tried together on that basis. On those facts, clubbing was not warranted and interference under Section 482 was declined.

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Issues: Whether the complaint case and the FIR case were required to be clubbed under Section 210 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and whether the impugned order refusing clubbing called for interference in proceedings under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Analysis: Section 210 applies only where, during inquiry or trial in a complaint case, an investigation by the police is in progress in relation to the same offence. The record showed that the police had already filed the final report under Section 173 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 before the complaint was filed, and thus no police investigation was pending when the complaint proceedings commenced. The complaint and the FIR case were also found to relate to different offences and could not be tried together on that basis.

Conclusion: Section 210 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 was not applicable, clubbing was rightly refused, and the petition for quashing was dismissed.

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