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Kanishk Sinha & Another v. The State of West Bengal & Another

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Dismissed
Court
Supreme Court of India
Decided
27 Feb 2025
Citation
[2025] 2 S.C.R. 1405
Case no.
CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 966/2025
Bench
Sudhanshu Dhulia, Ahsanuddin Amanullah

Issue for consideration

Whether the High Court was justified in holding that the direction issued in Priyanka Srivastava v. State of Uttar Pradesh [2015] 4 SCR 108 that a complaint will be accompanied by an affidavit is prospective in nature not having any will not be applicable to the complaint lodged against the appellants in the year 2010-2011.

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