SECTION 482 CRPC
Under Section 482, all that the High Court is required to examine is whether its intervention is required for implementing orders under the Code of Criminal Procedure or for prevention of abuse of process, or otherwise to secure the ends of justice. A charge sheet filed at the dictate of somebody other than the police would amount abuse of the process of law and hence the High Court ought to have exercised its inherent powers under Section 482 to the extent of the abuse. There is no requirement that the charge sheet has to be quashed as a whole and not in part. The Supplementary Report filed by the Police, at the direction of the Commission, is quashed.
Ishwar Pratap Singh and Ors. vs. The State of Uttar Pradesh and Ors. (28.11.2025 - SC) : MANU/SC/1658/2017