Shivjee Singh vs Nagendra Tiwary & Ors on 6 July, 2010
In "Shivjee Singh v. Nagendra Tiwary" (referred supra) the
facts are different. In the said judgment, in a case to be tried by
the Sessions Court, a private complaint was filed and the
Magistrate took cognizance and failed to record evidence of other
witnesses produced before the Court and issued process for
securing the presence of the accused to comply with the
requirement under Section 207 and 209 of Cr.P.C. The question in
the said judgment was that non compliance of Section 200 (2) of
Cr.P.C. is fatal. But the Apex Court after elaborate consideration of
various provisions of Cr.P.C. adverting to the law laid down by the
Apex Court in long line of decisions concluded that it is not fatal.