1988 (7) TMI 1

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.... is the 12th accused in the case pending against her in C. C. No. 179 of 1985 before the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, E. O. I., Madras, for offences under sections 120B, 420, 467, 471,197, 182, 181, 177, 193, 468, 196, 199, 200, 201, 380, 379, 419, 420 read with sections 511 and 109, Indian Penal Code, and section 277 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, read with sections 120B, 100, 419, 420....

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....ng succeeded in that, have commenced the second round of quash petition early for the purpose of protracting the trial and preventing proper conclusions. Learned counsel also contended that more than 25 witnesses have already been examined and the case stands posted for examination of the accused and, at this stage, the petitioner, without any valid ground, has approached this court. The contentio....

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....ning the accused under section 313(a), Criminal Procedure Code. It is only thereafter that the court will decide whether the evidence that has been adduced by the prosecution calls for either framing of charges or warrants a discharge of the accused. The proper course, therefore, is to put forward these contentions before the trial court. Section 482, Criminal Procedure Code, cannot be invoked whe....