https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310595 Section 174-A IPC is cognizable and may be prosecuted on a police charge-sheet without a complaint under Section 195 CrPC, because the bar in Section 195 applies to Sections 172 to 188 IPC and does not extend to Section 174-A. In proclamation proceedings under Section 82 CrPC, public reading and affixation are mandatory, but newspaper publication is only directory; non-publication in the directed newspaper does not by itself vitiate the proclamation. The FIR and proceedings under Section 174-A were treated as independent and were not quashed. en-us Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:59:55 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310595 Section 174-A IPC is cognizable and may be prosecuted on a police charge-sheet without a complaint under Section 195 CrPC, because the bar in Section 195 applies to Sections 172 to 188 IPC and does not extend to Section 174-A. In proclamation proceedings under Section 82 CrPC, public reading and affixation are mandatory, but newspaper publication is only directory; non-publication in the directed newspaper does not by itself vitiate the proclamation. The FIR and proceedings under Section 174-A were treated as independent and were not quashed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310595