https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=176670 For limitation under Section 468 of the Code, the relevant date is filing of the complaint or institution of prosecution, not the Magistrate's later act of taking cognizance. Chapter XXXVI was treated as a complete scheme, to be read with the provisions on exclusion of time, continuing offences, and extension of limitation in the interests of justice, so court delay cannot defeat a diligent complainant. The earlier special-statute decision in Krishna Pillai was confined to its own facts, while Bharat Kale, as followed in Japani Sahoo, was held to state the correct law on criminal limitation. en-us Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 09 Sep 2022 14:37:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=176670 For limitation under Section 468 of the Code, the relevant date is filing of the complaint or institution of prosecution, not the Magistrate's later act of taking cognizance. Chapter XXXVI was treated as a complete scheme, to be read with the provisions on exclusion of time, continuing offences, and extension of limitation in the interests of justice, so court delay cannot defeat a diligent complainant. The earlier special-statute decision in Krishna Pillai was confined to its own facts, while Bharat Kale, as followed in Japani Sahoo, was held to state the correct law on criminal limitation. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=176670